The IEA has stated that if commitments at the Paris Climate Summit are met, it would result in rapid slowdown in growth of carbon from the energy sector. [The Guardian]

Mexico is planning to quadruple its wind-power capacity as part of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s effort to transform the country’s energy industry. [Bloomberg]

A federal judge is blasting North Carolina’s environmental watchdog agency, saying officials didn’t try very hard to force Duke Energy to clean up toxic groundwater pollution near a coal-burning power plant. [ABC]