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GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks surge, dollar rises after strong U.S. data

* Fed rate hike priced in by December (Updates to U.S. market close)

Samarco to pay at least $5 bln in Brazil dam spill deal - source

BRASILIA, March 1 (Reuters) - Samarco Mineracao SA will pay at least 20 billion reais ($5 billion) in 15 years as part of a deal with the Brazilian government to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by a deadly dam spill at a mine, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday.

UPDATE 4-Quebec seeks injunction to force Energy East pipeline review

MONTREAL, March 1 (Reuters) - Quebec on Tuesday filed a motion for an injunction to ensure TransCanada Corp's proposed Energy East oil pipeline complies with the Canadian province's environmental laws, another potential setback for the project.

Solar, Wind and Hydro Projects Added to the U.S. Grid in February 2016

Recent data released from Generation Hub shows that four renewable energy projects went into operation in February 2016. The 29-MW Cannelton Hydropower plant in Kentucky and the 22-MW Willow Island Hydropower plant in West Virginia both owned by American Municipal Power – Ohio (AMP) each went online in February.

UPDATE 1-Marathon Oil joins $7.5 billion oil and gas equity wave

HOUSTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Energy companies are dominating this year's U.S. corporate share sales, raising $7.5 billion so far this year, with Marathon Oil Corp the latest to tap the market to bolster balance sheets to weather the volatile price of oil.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks see biggest gains since January, dollar rises after U.S. data

* Dollar index rises to one-month high (Updates data, prices, adds quote)

UPDATE 1-Brazil's No. 2 builder admits illegal Rousseff campaign funding - paper

SAO PAULO, March 1 (Reuters) - Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez, have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday.

Another blast at Severstal's mine in Arctic, no one hurt - reports

MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Russia's Emergency Ministry said on Tuesday that another explosion had occurred in a coal mine inside the Arctic Circle where 26 died last week, but this time no one was hurt, Russian news agencies reported.

DOE Announces Wave Energy Prize Finalists

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that nine teams have been named finalists in the Wave Energy Prize -- a 20-month design-build-test competition -- and will proceed to the next phase of the competition.

Grading 2016 US Presidential Candidates on Renewable Energy Policies

Renewable energy is a particularly hot issue in this year’s presidential election. At the end of 2015, the U.S. joined 195 other nations in signing a UN agreement that committed to an aggressive climate change reduction strategy.  

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