A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world.

CLIMATE/EMISSIONS

Global warming’s terrifying new math (via Rolling Stone)

EU carbon prices plunge yet again amid backloading delay rumors (via BusinessGreen)

Have US CO2 emissions peaked? Breaking down the good and bad drivers (via Climate Progress)

Widespread drought is likely to worsen (via New York Times)

SOLAR TARIFFS

Germany mulls solar panel anti-dumping suit vs. China (via Reuters)

China to investigate US, South Korean solar imports (via Reuters)

US tariffs not slowing slide in solar panel prices (via Reuters)

Unraveling the China import duties: how much will they cost? (via Greentech Media)

COAL

Report: mountaintop removal coal exports rising (via Charleston Gazette)

Why is the US government so bullish on coal? (via Sightline Daily)

Sen. Merkley, citing climate fears, wants big study of coal export plans (via The Hill)

CLEAN TECH

Using electricity rate data to sell solar (via Earth2Tech)

Opower claims 5 million more homes (via Greentech Media)

LED retrofits cut a slice out of NYC’s energy costs (via SmartPlanet)

RENEWABLES

Solar power outshines nuclear power: study (via The Star)

Global renewable electricity growing, soon will be 1.5 times all US generation (via Facts of the Day)

Solar acquisitions doubled to record $10.8 billion (via Renewable Energy World)

Plans revealed for UK’s largest geothermal plant (via BusinessGreen)

Small Japanese village goes all solar (via CNET)

Renewable energy just got easier to tie to grid (via Sustainable Business)

More than $7 billion in windfarm projects expected to be completed in 3Q 2012 in America (via Yahoo! Finance)

DOE spends $2.4 million on hydrogen station research (via Autoblog Green)

Mud slinging enters debate over ethanol’s impact on gasoline prices (via New York Times)

Administration touts ‘Great Green Fleet’ test exercises with biofuels (via Houston Chronicle)

US military pioneers mobile clean energy technologies (via Climate Progress)

Report highlights clean energy might of small cities (via Sustainable Business Oregon)

Wisconsin’s first community wind farm up and running (via La Crosse Tribune)

NATURAL GAS

Ohio is launching pad for US Chamber shale development offensive (via EnergyWire)

TRANSPORTATION

Vancouver Car2Go one year in: 15,000 drivers, 12,000 trips a week (via Autoblog Green)

ENVIRONMENT

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible (via Mongabay)

Algal blooms could have caused last Ice Age (via Wired)

GREEN BUSINESS

The business case for green marketing beyond consumers (via GreenBiz)

16-year old Egyptian finds way to turn plastic waste into $78 million of biofuel (via Inhabitat)

OIL

South Dakota crude oil boom is nothing compared to North Dakota (via Huffington Post/AP)

OPINION

Why do ‘experts’ always lowball clean-energy projections (via Grist)

A view from the tipping point: the “switch” for energy’s future (via StateImpact Texas)

Did the Navy blow its biofuel chance? (via New Fuelist)

Natural disasters tell the story of climate change (via Huffington Post)