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OIL/GAS
BP Gulf spill judge orders Jan 14 trial on US claims (via Houston Chronicle)
BLM halts oil and gas leasing plan for 30,000 Colorado acres (via Denver Post)
KEYSTONE XL/TAR SANDS
TransCanada expected to reapply for Keystone pipeline permit as soon as Friday (via Washington Post)
RENEWABLES
Hundreds of thousands to be employed in US solar industry by 2020, says SEIA (via PV Tech)
Solar giants form new global industry body (via BusinessGreen)
Morgan Stanley brings $300 million to residential solar leasing (via Greentech Media)
How wind power fits into our energy diet (via Grist)
Mining old coal mines for “instant” geothermal energy (via CleanTechnica)
After Fukushima, will new feed-in-tariff solve Japan’s energy issues? (via Energy Collective)
TRANSPORTATION
CBO: new CAFÉ rules will short Highway Trust Fund $57b by 2022 (via Autoblog Green)
Automakers agree on ‘single-port’ charging system for electric cars (via The Hill)
Toyota RAV4 EV to make public debut next week (via CNET)
Can you trust the mileage sticker on your car? (via Washington Post)
California bullet train board approves environmental studies (via Los Angeles Times)
Quebec utility to test vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home power exchanges (via Green Car Congress)
EMISSIONS/CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT
Ice flowing slower on Greenland than feared; still sped up 30% since 2000 (via Climate Central)
Plants flowering much faster as global temperatures rise (via Christian Science Monitor)
Earth observation satellites threatened by budget shortfalls in US (via Yale e360)
World Bank: China must clean up cities to meet emissions targets (via BusinessGreen)
What Kenya and Peru can teach the US about fighting climate change (via Good)
OTC: a more balanced view on climate change (via Houston Chronicle)
NATURAL GAS/FRACKING
Natural gas flaring rises globally, fueled by US shale boom (via Huffington Post)
Japanese demand for LNG set to jump 9 percent in 2012 (via Reuters)
Total cleared for “dynamic kill” on Elgin gas leak (via Reuters)
Chesapeake woes may be lifeline for US natgas (via Reuters)
Chesapeake faces SEC probe (via CNN Money)
EPA fracking study announcement was delayed by Wyoming officials (via Huffington Post)
Markets outpace regulators in evaluating LNG export projects (via AOL Energy)
Shale energy boom put America in top ten gas flaring countries, boosting global warming pollution (via Climate Progress)
Wastewater jitters in New York State (via New York Times)
ELECTRICITY GENERATION
EIA reports new generation capacity exceeding retirements 2.5 to 1 (via Facts of the Day)
IEA says US clean energy standard may boost prices after 2025 (via Bloomberg)
Water shortages may leave energy producers dying of thirst (via Forbes)
2012 electricity generation scoreboard: what’s up & down? (via Facts of the Day)
NUCLEAR
Japan’s leaders fret as nuclear shutdown nears (via New York Times)
Japan switches off last nuclear power plant; will it cope? (via Reuters)
San Onofre nuclear plant may be back online by June (via Bloomberg)
OPINION
Crazy weather to America: get it yet? (via Mother Jones)
Science alone can’t tell us how bad climate change will be (via Grist)
Forget Berlin’s long-term energy plans, German solar firms will only survive if they head to Asia (via Recharge)
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