Renewable energy projects on Native American lands will benefit if the U.S. Dept. of the Interior's proposed changes to leasing regulations stay on schedule for final rules later this year. Nancy J. Appleby, a longtime expert in Indian law and real estate development, explains why in Time for a Change.

This month's Energy Matters features one whopper of a circuit breaker headed to India; biofuels testing and training in Minnesota; new combined cycle and LNG projects from GE; new green building legislation in California; compelling reads from The New Yorker (Chevron in Ecuador) and WIRED (anatomy of the clean-tech bust); the ACEEE's critique of what it sees as weak new DOE transformer standards; and one of several recent reports on the North Dakota boom.