Energy Update

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Investors showered $23.6
billion in new cash on U.S.-based stock funds over the latest
week, the most in nearly two years and the third-largest haul
for those funds on record, Thomson Reuters Lipper data showed on
Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc
Chief Executive Elon Musk won approval on Thursday from the
electric luxury automaker's shareholders for an acquisition of
SolarCity Corp, the solar energy system installer in
which he is the largest shareholder.

CHICAGO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - West Virginia's environmental
regulator sued Alpha Natural Resources Inc's former management
on allegations of fraud on Wednesday, saying top executives
should be held accountable for an unusual $100 million funding
gap that has emerged just three months after the U.S. coal
producer exited bankruptcy.

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The earth is on track for its
warmest year on record after October temperatures equaled the
third-warmest for the month ever, a U.S. government agency said
on Thursday.