News bites: Tales of a climate-change convert

Prominent climate change skeptic Richard Muller now says "humans are almost entirely the cause" of global warming after heading a Koch Industries-funded study. Muller describes himself as a "converted skeptic" in an opinion piece in today's New York Times.

The United States has the potential to produce nearly 200,000 gigawatts of solar power, according to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory study cited by PV magazine.

An investigation of JP Morgan's energy bidding policies shows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is getting more aggressive with policing the market, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Ohio continues to welcome a natural-gas drilling boom as falling prices draw drillers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are using $7 million in federal grants to develop cow manure as a biofuel, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

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