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CAP AND TRADE

Oil and gas CEOs call for carbon price as Exxon, Chevron outline
climate strategy. The CEOs of six of the largest energy companies
worldwide want national governments to put a price tag on
greenhouse gas emissions. In a letter addressed to Christiana
Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change, the authors call upon the United Nations and
countries to "open a direct dialogue" on climate change and
carbon pricing…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/06/02/stories/1060019472 
 
Europe’s Top Oil Producers Unite in Push on Climate Policy. The
heads of Europe’s largest oil and gas companies have joined
together for the first time to call for governments to agree to
carbon pricing at a United Nations-led summit on climate change
at the end of the year. “Climate change is a critical challenge
for our world,” the chief executive officers of six energy
companies…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/europe-s-largest-oil-producers-make-joint-call-on-climate-action

Six European energy companies seek U.N. help for carbon pricing
system –FT. Europe's six largest oil and gas companies, including
Royal Dutch Shell and Britain's BP Plc, have united together in
seeking help from the United Nations to stop global warming, the
Financial Times reported on Sunday. The companies asked for
direct talks with the United Nations and governments on creating
a global carbon pricing system ahead of U.N. climate talks in
Paris in December.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/31/europe-carbon-un-idUSL1N0YM0KI20150531



AIR POLLUTION

A new tool to fight the EPA. A conservative group is working on a
way to allow states to join together to reject the Obama
administration's proposed carbon emissions limits on power
plants. The Texas Public Policy Foundation is drafting
legislative language that it says would allow states to enter
into a compact to opt out of the Environmental Protection
Agency's proposed rules, expected to be finalized this summer.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-new-tool-to-fight-the-epa/article/2565181


Imperial Valley Tackles Air Pollution Crisis, Unveils First of 40
Real-Time Data Monitors. What do you do when your children can’t
breathe? In Imperial County, which has the highest asthma-related
hospitalization rate in the state, you take action. Friday,
community members and research partners in California’s Imperial
County unveiled the first of up to 40 new air pollution monitors…
http://www.thedesertreview.com/imperial-valley-tackles-air-pollution-crisis-unveils-first-of-40-real-time-data-monitors/


Panel to tackle EPA ozone proposal. The Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee this week will delve into U.S. EPA's
proposal to tighten the national ozone standard, as well as
consider three pieces of legislation aimed at various aspects of
it. The Wednesday hearing will focus on the "challenges and
implications" of a tighter ozone standard, according to a notice
from the committee.
http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060019380/feed 

CLIMATE CHANGE

French minister: 2015 climate deal must avoid US Congress. The
global climate agreement being negotiated this year must be
worded in such a way that it doesn't require approval by the U.S.
Congress, the French foreign minister said Monday.
Laurent Fabius told African delegates at U.N. climate talks in
Bonn that "we know the politics in the U.S. Whether we like it or
not, if it comes to the Congress, they will refuse."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_UN_CLIMATE_TALKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Germany sells more of most potent greenhouse gas in 2014. German
sales of sulphur hexafluoride, the most potent of all greenhouse
gases, rose 13 percent last year compared with 2013 levels,
according to data from the federal statistics office published on
Wednesday. Sales of sulphur hexafluoride increased by 104 tonnes
to 916 tonnes in total last year, but were still 16 percent lower
than 2012, the statistics office said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/us-carbon-germany-idUSKBN0OC0P720150601?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews


France suggests world leaders at start, not end, of climate
summit. France suggested on Monday that world leaders should
attend only the start of a summit on climate change in Paris in
six months, hoping to avoid a repeat of the last failed attempt
in 2009 when they came at the end and left empty-handed. Foreign
Minister Laurent Fabius also said France hoped to agree some
elements of a U.N. climate deal by October…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/us-climatechange-bonn-idUSKBN0OH2Y920150601?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews


UN climate efforts not good enough - French minister. Efforts
spearheaded by the United Nations to reach a global deal to fight
climate change are "inadequate", a French minister said on Monday
in a sign of growing frustration before Paris hosts a major
meeting later this year. Governments will try on Monday to
streamline an 89-page draft text of a U.N. deal to fight climate
change…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/climatechange-france-royal-idUSL5N0YN0ND20150601?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews



Climate change boosts rain in Africa's Sahel region: study.
Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region
of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the
1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate change, a
study said on Monday. The report adds to debate about the causes
of a greening of the Sahel region…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/us-climatechange-sahel-idUSKBN0OH2UY20150601?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews


Bonn Climate Talks Aim to Build a Springboard to Paris, Not a
Sinkhole. Six months before what may be the last chance for a
global climate agreement in Paris, negotiators get to work on the
draft text. Six months from the start of a Paris conference where
the United Nations hopes to complete a far-reaching deal on the
climate crisis, negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany this week
and next are back to working on their unwieldy draft text even as
the treaty's goals slide over distant horizons.
http://insideclimatenews.org/carbon-copy/01062015/blank 

Ocean Species Set for Reshuffle Unseen in 3 Million Years. The
world’s oceans could face a massive reshuffling by the end of the
century – the likes of which hasn’t been seen in as many as 3
million years – due to warming waters. Changes are already afoot
in the oceans. Roughly 93 percent of the heat trapped by human
greenhouse gas emissions is ending up in the world’s seas…
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-warming-species-change-19051

Compliance options on the table at Midwest workshop. Midwestern
officials who have a stake in U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan are
gathering in Detroit on Friday to explore implementation options
for the proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power
plants. http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060019363/feed 
 
DROUGHT

Pool industry touts water savings in California drought. Leigh
McDonough stood in her backyard on a hot spring day and listened
to the steady shush-shush-shush of two garden hoses filling her
new pool and hot tub with water. Her family installed the
21,000-gallon pool despite a state mandate to cut overall water
consumption by 25 percent amid a crushing, four-year drought.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CALIFORNIA_DROUGHT_SWIMMING_POOLS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-01-01-42-20


Swimming pool business sinking with California drought. The
backyard swimming pool is becoming the latest victim of the
lingering California drought. The San Francisco Chronicle reports
(http://bit.ly/1d9hpkt ) city and utility drought policies across
the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond are increasingly limiting
how often pools can be filled and by how much — and sometimes
barring fill-ups entirely. Some residents are willingly removing
their swimming pools.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article22793475.html#storylink=cpy

UPDATE 1-Brazil drought could cost EDP 150-200 mln euros in core
earnings. The impact of Brazil's protracted drought on
EDP-Energias de Portugal's hydropower installations there could
cut the utility's full-year core earnings by between 150 and 200
million euros ($165-$219 million), its chief executive said.
"Hopefully it will be less than that, the lower end of that
range, or even below…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/02/electricity-europe-edp-drought-idUSL5N0YO19H20150602?feedType=RSS&feedName=utilitiesSector


Past thinking about California's water may still bear pointers
for future. The decline of Lake Mead to a water level not seen in
nearly eight decades, or since the giant reservoir was still
filling behind the just-completed Hoover Dam, is more than a
visual reminder of the severity of the drought. It's a reminder
that this crucial part of California's water supply, the economic
lifeblood of the state, remains encumbered by false expectations
and outdated dreams.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150531-column.html


For a lone, lovely month, it hasn’t much felt like a drought in
the Sierra Nevada. Rain and snow have fallen week after week
during May in the high country. Temperatures have dropped below
normal most days, reducing the amount of water lost to
evaporation. Southern California has received an unusual amount
of rain, too: San Diego has seen 2.4 inches of precipitation in
May; it normally gets 0.21 inches.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article22659900.html#storylink=cpy


Wet May pushes Lake Tahoe back up to natural rim. A wet May has
pushed Lake Tahoe back up to its natural rim, but the lake will
soon start dropping again because of the four-year drought. It's
the first time the lake straddling the Nevada-California border
has been so high since dropping below the rim last October, said
Federal Water Master Chad Blanchard.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/article22767597.html#storylink=cpy 
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wet-May-pushes-Lake-Tahoe-back-up-to-natural-rim-6298025.php




King Salmon: Is the Drought Threatening California’s Favorite
Fish? California salmon lovers spend a good part of the year
waiting for summer, which normally heralds the return of our wild
king salmon, aka the Chinook. But so far, the season (which
opened on May 1) has gotten off to a slow start and been mostly
disappointing. What’s in store for our beloved California salmon?
http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/05/30/king-salmon-is-the-drought-threatening-californias-favorite-fish/


Senate OKs package of water bills. Three water measures focused
on efficiency and equity have been approved by the state Senate.
The bill would improve water management, combat the effects of
the drought and climate change and conserve water supplies in
California, says their author, state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis.
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=28440 

DROUGHT: Marketing pits pools vs. turf. But some say comparing
the backyard pool and lawn is missing the point -- that
substantial sacrifice is needed to weather drought.
California’s swimming pool and spa industry has launched a
campaign to market itself as a drought-friendly landscaping
option as the state enters a fourth summer of drought and is
insisting the refreshing backyard pool wastes less water than the
water-guzzling lawn.
http://www.pe.com/articles/pool-768764-water-pools.html 

Mandatory water conservation starts; local suppliers await state
response. The first of over 270 days of mandated statewide water
conservation began on Monday, with several large water suppliers
in Humboldt County still eagerly awaiting the state’s response on
whether their bountiful water reservoir at Ruth Lake will result
in a significantly lower conservation quota.
http://www.times-standard.com/general-news/20150601/mandatory-water-conservation-starts-local-suppliers-await-state-response


The Quest to Quench the World’s Thirst for Water. The average
Briton uses 150 liters of water a day; the average American gets
through 570 liters (150 gallons) of the stuff. The world is
getting thirstier and the global demand for fresh water is rising
by 640 billion liters (169 billion gallons) a year. Population
growth is one factor, not only the need for drinking water and
sanitation but also the need to produce more food.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/worlds-thirst-for-water-19033


Vietnam’s Coffee Crops Suffer Rising Temps and Drought. The last
time Nguyen Van Viet saw water in his well was almost four months
ago. The 44-year-old has farmed coffee in central Vietnam for two
decades and says that’s never happened before. “This is the worst
drought I’ve seen in over a decade,” Viet, told the Guardian.
“Some people don’t have enough water to drink.”
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/vietnams-coffee-crops-suffer-19036


Panel to mull opportunities for addressing Western water
shortage. With California gripped by a record drought and broad
swaths of the rest of the West dry and getting drier, the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee will this week take a deep
dive into the issue.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been
locked in negotiations with her upper and lower chamber
colleagues, as well as the state government and federal agencies…
http://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060019392/feed 

DIESEL EMISSIONS

Big Trucks Emit Huge Amounts Of Carbon Every Year. The EPA Is
About To Do Something About It. The Environmental Protection
Agency is expected to propose new standards for heavy-duty trucks
this week, regulations aimed at reducing carbon emissions from
tractor trailers and other big trucks.  It’s not yet known
exactly what cuts the proposed regulations will call for, but
according to the New York Times, the rule will likely require
heavy trucks — like tractor trailers, buses, and garbage trucks…
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/02/3664583/new-epa-proposal-for-trucks/


FUELS

Washington finds unlikely ally in OPEC as biofuels debate rages.
The Obama administration has found an unlikely ally in its
efforts to keep pushing more biofuel into the nation's gasoline
supply: OPEC. The lowest oil prices in over six years have fueled
a resurgence in U.S. gasoline use in recent months as more
Americans take to the road.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/usa-epa-ethanol-idUSL1N0YM07R20150601


U.S. gas prices edge up to $2.84 a gallon –survey. The average
price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline in the United States
rose 4 cents from two weeks ago to $2.84 a gallon, which was the
highest since Nov. 21, the Lundberg survey released on Sunday
showed. The average price per gallon in the week ended May 29 was
about 85 cents lower than a year ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/31/usa-gasoline-prices-idUSL1N0YM0KJ20150531?feedType=RSS&feedName=industrialsSector


Japan Tops China as World’s Biggest Lender for Coal, Study Says.
Japan and China lent more than $35 billion to finance coal power
in the eight years through the end of 2014, according to
environmental groups in a study that urged countries to stop
supporting the fuel. Japan provided more than $20 billion,
followed by $15 billion from China, according to the joint study
by the Natural Resources Defense Council…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/japan-tops-china-as-world-s-biggest-lender-for-coal-study-says


Elon Musk: 'If I cared about subsidies, I would have entered the
oil and gas industry'. lon Musk says his companies don't need the
estimated $4.9 billion they enjoy in government support, but the
money will help them move faster to transform the dirty business
of energy. "If I cared about subsidies, I would have entered the
oil and gas industry," said Musk, the chief executive of Tesla
Motors and SpaceX and the chairman of SolarCity.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150602-story.html#page=1


Coal Industry Fighting for Survival on 7 Fronts. The 'war on
coal' started long before Obama took office to control the costly
and deadly health impacts of an otherwise cheap and abundant
fuel. When Duke Energy announced a billion-dollar plan to shut
down a 50-year-old coal power plant, switching the 376-megawatt
site over to cheap natural gas and clean solar, the company
proclaimed the "end of the coal era in Asheville, N.C."
http://insideclimatenews.org/carbon-copy/01062015/coal-industry-fighting-survival-7-fronts


EPA Proposes Lower Increases For Ethanol In Gasoline. In 2007,
the Federal government created the Renewable Fuels Standard,
requiring increased amounts of corn-based ethanol and advanced
biofuels to be blended into the nation's gasoline supply. At the
time, it seemed like an ideal way to lessen dependence on foreign
oil and cut emissions--without forcing drivers to drastically
change their habits.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098531_epa-proposes-lower-increases-for-ethanol-in-gasoline


DOE issues request for information on gas clean-up for fuel cell
applications. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Fuel Cell
Technologies Office (FCTO) has issued a request for information
(DE-FOA-0001331) to obtain feedback and opinions from industry,
academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other
stakeholders on the report findings from the Gas Clean-up for
Fuel Cell Applications Workshop.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/06/20150602-doerfi.html 

Artificial Photosynthesis Might Make Fuel From CO2 & Sunlight,
One Day. Electric cars may have made great strides recently, but
thousands of researchers are still searching for a sustainable
liquid fuel. Such a fuel wouldn't require drivers who are used to
pumping gas to alter their habits, and it would sidestep the
issues of battery weight and charging times.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098551_artificial-photosynthesis-might-make-fuel-from-co2-sunlight-one-day


EPA's RFS targets stir discontent among industry, greens.  After
experiencing many months of delays, the biofuel industry had
mixed responses to U.S. EPA's proposed volume requirements under
the renewable fuel standard (RFS). Friday's long-anticipated
announcement included renewable fuel volume requirements for
2014, 2015 and 2016, with biomass-based diesel requirements for
2017.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/06/01/stories/1060019396 

VEHICLES

Tesla Motors co-founder wants to electrify commercial trucks.
Twelve years ago, Ian Wright and some fellow engineers launched
Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley company that has helped jumpstart
the market for electric cars. Now, the Tesla co-founder wants to
electrify noisy, gas-guzzling trucks that deliver packages, haul
garbage and make frequent stops on city streets.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ELECTRIFYING_TRUCKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Plug-In Electric Car Sales In May: Leaf, Volt, Others Surge. As
spring arrives, sales of plug-in electric cars traditionally rise
from their winter levels. Sales during the months of May through
August are usually among the highest of the year, and at least
for May, that rule is holding as strongly for 2015 as it did last
year.The Nissan Leaf, now the best-selling plug-in vehicle in the
U.S. as well as the world at large, saw May deliveries of 2,104
cars.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098553_plug-in-electric-car-sales-in-may-leaf-volt-others-surge


Electric-Car-Stifling 'Travel Provision,' 2016 Toyota Prius Spy
Shots, Chevy Bolt EV Trademark: Today's Car News. Today, find out
how a regulatory "travel provision" may be stifling electric-car
sales outside California, see spy shots of the 2016 Toyota Prius
hybrid, and learn why General Motors' efforts to trademark the
Chevrolet Bolt EV name have hit a roadblock.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098535_electric-car-stifling-travel-provision-2016-toyota-prius-spy-shots-chevy-bolt-ev-trademark-todays-car-news


Linde and OMV open new hydrogen fueling station in Innsbruck.
Technology company The Linde Group and OMV today officially
opened a new hydrogen fueling station in Innsbruck. The H2
station with the capacity to fuel six vehicles per hour is
located on one of Europe’s key transit routes and will make the
journey from Germany to Italy feasible for fuel-cell vehicles.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2015/06/201506012-linde.html 

Zero Electric Motorcycles Cuts Prices, Sells To Police, Gets Big
Grant Too. While its competitor Brammo sold itself to Polaris,
the electric-motorcycle maker Zero continues to follow its own
path. Each year it has significantly improved the performance of
its line of motorcycles. And, Zero Motorcycles has attracted
high-level executives from within the motorcycle and automotive
industries.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098521_zero-electric-motorcycles-cuts-prices-sells-to-police-gets-big-grant-too


Chevy Bolt EV Trademark To Be Shared With Yamaha After U.S.
Patent Office Suspension: UPDATE. Not long after its unveiling at
January's Detroit Auto Show, General Motors promised to put the
200-mile Chevrolet Bolt EV electric-car concept into production
within two years. But there's already a problem with that plan.
It has nothing to do with the claimed 200-mile range or $37,500
base price--both of which could prove challenging targets--but
rather the car's name.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098530_chevy-bolt-ev-trademark-suspended-due-to-yamaha-conflict-by-u-s-patent-office


GREEN ENERGY

Solar-powered plane begins unprecedented China-to-Hawaii flight.
A Swiss pilot of a solar plane embarked Sunday on the longest leg
of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of
fuel. Andre Borschberg took off from Nanjing, China, at 2:39 a.m.
Sunday in the Solar Impulse 2 for a flight across the Pacific
Ocean expected to last six days and five nights, or at least 130
hours.
http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Solar-powered-plane-begins-unprecedented-6297967.php


Regulators give green light to largest Minnesota solar energy
project. $250 million plan, state’s largest, to include 21 sites.
The biggest solar power project in Minnesota won approval
Thursday from state regulators. The $250 million Aurora Solar
Project by Edina-based Geronimo Energy calls for the installation
of ground-mounted solar panels at 21 mostly rural sites from
Chisago County north of the Twin Cities to Waseca in southeast
Minnesota.
http://www.startribune.com/regulators-give-green-light-to-largest-minnesota-solar-energy-project/305357571/


Bill would let NV Energy delay new renewable-energy projects. A
bill that would let NV Energy delay building new renewable energy
projects required as part of a plan to replace the loss of
coal-fired power produced at the Reid Gardner plant at Moapa was
introduced Monday, the last day of the legislative session.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/bill-would-let-nv-energy-delay-new-renewable-energy-projects


How renewable energy in South Africa is quietly stealing a march
on coal. Solar, biomass and wind energy systems are popping up
all over the country and feeding clean energy into the strained
electrical grid. The howling wind drives the turbines, their
blades bent back from the force as they spin in the evening light
and send electricity to local villages in South Africa’s Eastern
Cape.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/01/how-renewable-energy-in-south-africa-is-quietly-stealing-a-march-on-coal?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it


In U.S.-China climate commitments, technology research is where
the rubber meets the road. This week, the steering committee for
the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) is meeting in
Washington, D.C. The program pools resources from the world's two
largest energy producers, energy consumers and greenhouse gas
emitters, aiming to advance technology in coal-fired generation,
clean vehicles and the built environment.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/06/02/stories/1060019480 

N.J. pilot offshore wind project suffers setback in court. A
federally supported pilot offshore wind proposal for the waters
off Atlantic City, N.J., suffered another setback Friday in New
Jersey court. The Appellate Division of New Jersey's Superior
Court unanimously ruled against the developer, Fishermen's
Energy, in its claim that the New Jersey Board of Public
Utilities (BPU) wrongfully denied approval of the project.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/06/01/stories/1060019373 

After exiting deal with Kemper coal plant, Miss. cooperative
turns to wind. The electric cooperative that recently backed out
an agreement to buy a 15 percent stake in Mississippi Power Co.'s
$6.2 billion clean coal plant in Kemper County, Miss., is now
seeking up to 250 megawatts of wind power for its member
utilities. Officials with the South Mississippi Electric Power
Association issued a request for proposal last week seeking bids
from wind energy developers…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/06/02/stories/1060019473 

MISCELLANEOUS

Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in
government subsidies. Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has
built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make
electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.
And he's built those companies with the help of billions in
government subsidies. Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX…
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html?track=rss#page=1


OPINIONS

California agriculture: It's worth the water. Pundits here in
drought-stricken California have become fond of proclaiming that
farms consume 80% of the state's water and generate only about 2%
of its gross domestic product. "Why devote so much of our water
to an industry that contributes so little fuel to our economic
engine?" they ask..
Both of those figures are deceptive. It's only possible to arrive
at 80% by not accounting for the amount of water dedicated to
environmental uses.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0602-ross-sumner-water-agriculture-20150601-story.html


Editing The Climate Talkers: Punctuation's Effect On Earth's
Fate. In Bonn, Germany, hundreds of people have gathered to work
on a draft version of a major United Nations agreement to control
greenhouse gas emissions that are changing the Earth's climate.
And when I found out that climate change negotiations basically
all boil down to writing and editing a document, I was intrigued.
http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2015/06/01/164059/editing_the_climate_talkers_punctuations_effect_on_earths_fate?category=science&source=npr


INSIGHT-U.N. climate deal in Paris may be graveyard for 2C goal.
The U.N.'s Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for
curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its
defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Achieving the 2C (3.6
Fahrenheit) target has been the driving force for climate
negotiators…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/climatechange-paris-idUSL5N0YJ4VL20150601?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews

BLOGS

Ford Follows Tesla And Toyota In Releasing EV Patents. Ford is
now the third automaker to release patents related to electric
vehicle technology for anyone to use, in an effort to accelerate
research and development of electric vehicles. Tesla and Toyota
have already made similar moves for the same reason. Ford has
more than 650 patents on electric vehicle technology…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewdepaula/2015/05/31/ford-follows-tesla-and-toyota-in-releasing-ev-patents/?ss=logistics-transport


Global warming may cause largest ocean species migration in 3
million years. If greenhouse gas emissions are not curtailed
soon, then global warming may bring about the most sweeping
re-arrangement of ocean species in at least 3 million years,
according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the
journal Nature Climate Change, shows that by the end of the
century, the polar regions may be have some of the most abundant
and diverse sea life of anywhere on the planet, while the
tropics, which are currently the crown jewel of marine species
richness, may be drained of much of its iconic marine life.
http://mashable.com/2015/06/01/global-warming-huge-oceans-shift/


In the battle against climate change, Seattle is on the front
lines. On May 13, the Polar Pioneer chugged determinedly across
Puget Sound toward Seattle, ignoring requests from the mayor and
port officials to stay away. The Pioneer is a fourth-generation,
semisubmersible drilling rig, designed by the Japanese firm Polar
Hitachi and built in the shipyard in Ariake, Japan, to withstand
some of the world’s harshest conditions.
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