10/03/11 9:30am

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OIL/GASOLINE/DRILLING

Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales (via Bloomberg)

Chevron to unveil solar oilfield project Monday (via Reuters)

Salazar defends approval of Shell’s Arctic plan (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

Shell hopes to break the ice on Arctic drilling (via Fuel Fix)

Agency overseeing oil, gas exploration gets shakeup (via The Los Angeles Times)

Interior plans to seek BP fines in ‘very near future,’ but no firm date (via The Hill's E2 Wire)

SOLAR/WIND/RENEWABLES

A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles (via The New York Times)

Energy Secretary Chu defends loan program for solar, renewable energy projects (via The Washington Post)

EDP Renewables lays off 10 percent of N. American workforce (via Fuel Fix)

Homeowners and Businesses Embracing Small Wind Turbines (via The New York Times)

CLIMATE/ENVIRONMENT/EMISSIONS

Scientists report ozone hole over the Arctic for the first time (via MSNBC)

Energy bills and emissions still rising due to gadget addiction, says report (via The Guardian)

Wall Street protesters enter 3rd week (via CBS News)

Report says climate change threatens booming cocoa industry in West African countries (via The Washington Post)

KEYSTONE XL

Proposed Keystone XL oil project draws a divisive line (via The Los Angeles Times)

NATURAL GAS/FRACKING

Industry adds more voices to gas debate (via Fuel Fix)

GOVERNMENT/REGULATIONS

DOJ seeks trustee in Solyndra bankruptcy (via Reuters)

POLITICS

Perry at town hall: I’m ‘not afraid’ to call myself a climate change skeptic (via The Hill)

AUTOS/TRANSPORTATION

California motorists leading the way on using less gasoline (via The Los Angeles Times)

GE may lease vehicle batteries for electric cars (via Reuters)

Tesla wannabe owners get a gander at Model S Sedan (via Reuters)

Paris launches electric car-sharing plan (via The Los Angeles Times)

GREEN BUILDING

Living In A Geodesic Dome Home (via NPR)

'App Store' Aims to Get LEED Buildings to Deliver on Performance (via Green Biz)

BOOKS

Daniel Yergin found surprises while writing ‘The Quest’ (via Fuel Fix)

OPINION/ANALYSIS

Koch General Counsel Mark Holden Responds to Bloomberg Markets Magazine (via Koch Industries)

EU carbon costs may force refiners to relocate, close (via Reuters)

Advancing next gen biofuels by turning up the heat on biomass pretreatment processes (via EurekAlert)

The other Keystone debate (via The Economist)

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