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

GREEN JOBS

Green jobs growing the fastest in red and swing states (via GigaOm)

Transit creates 31-84 percent more jobs than building highways per $1 spent (via CleanTechnica)

OIL

Report predicts decade-long surge in US oil production (via Houston Chronicle)

Shell halts Arctic drilling right after it began (via New York Times)

BP selling oil fields in Gulf of Mexico ahead of Deepwater Horizon fines (via The Guardian)

RENEWABLES

Wind power could meet all global energy demands, study says (via Yale e360)

France to launch second offshore wind tender (via Reuters)

African Development Bank approves $800 million in loans to fund Morocco wind and solar projects (via AfDB)

Chinese utilities ordered to buy up to 15 percent wind power (via BusinessGreen)

Wind energy central to UK power supply outlook (via AOL Energy)

Report: biofuel industry will produce up to 2.6 billion gallons by 2015 (via Environmental Leader)

Wind subsidies raise a storm in heartland states (via Stateline)

Wind, sun, and water: getting past the geography of renewables (via National Geographic)

Even with RFS, ethanol can’t escape drought impact (via Greentech Media)

American Wind Energy Association drops Exelon over PTC opposition (via The Hill)

CLIMATE

Scientists search for strategy to convey seriousness of sea-level rise (via ClimateWire)

US has third-warmest summer, warmest year to date (via Climate Central)

US experiences most extreme eight-month period of weather ever recorded (via Climate Progress)

Wisconsin ranks first in extreme 2012 heat (via New York Times)

NUCLEAR

Nuclear repairs no easy sale as cheap gas hits utilities (via Bloomberg)

GRID

Smart building services market to top $1 billion by 2020 (via BusinessGreen)

USDA reaches $250 million in smart grid investments (via Renew Grid)

As data centers proliferate in Oregon, power planners raise a red flag (via The Oregonian)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Fracking in California takes less water than in Texas (via Houston Chronicle)

Pennsylvania’s shale gas impact fee will generate more than $200 million (via StateImpact Pennsylvania)

TRANSPORTATION

Will new fuel-economy rules reduce the need for oil sands imports? (via InsideClimate News)

GM’s Volt: the ugly math of low sales, high costs (via Reuters)

GM challenges report that it loses $49,000 on every Chevy Volt (via MIT Technology Review)

Second annual National Plug-In Day to feature EVs in 60 cities (via Autoblog Green)

How new CAFÉ rules will force pickup trucks to get cleaner (via Autoblog Green)

EMISSIONS

Global carbon trading system has “essentially collapsed” (via The Guardian)

Norway to establish CO2 compensation plan for industry (via Bloomberg)

POLITICS

Politicians who deny climate change cannot be “pro-business” (via Harvard Business Review)

Obama versus Romney on energy: where their policies differ (via Washington Post)

Republicans mock Inslee’s vision of an energy “revolution” (via Seattle Times)

OPINION

ABC journalist: Climate coverage drop in media due to “misinformation and intimidation campaign” plus “immensity of crisis” (via Climate Progress)

Should the government support applied research? (via MIT Technology Review)

Government support for clean energy innovation: breakthrough carbon capture modeling (via Innovation Files)

A simple, useful guide to communicating climate change (via Grist)

Hometown heroes: three ways to win climate fights at the local level (via Grist)

California transmission policies limit renewable energy choices (via Greentech Media)

OTHER NEWS

An additional listing of clean energy and climate news is posted at Climate Progress