Alternative Energy News - December 18, 2006

• The National Renewable Laboratory has recently published its final report on the GM-Allison hybrid electric buses in service in King County, WA, which found that the hybrid buses had a 27% higher fuel economy on average compared with that of diesel buses.
• Facing federal pressure over worsening air pollution, a Colorado state air quality commission on Sunday approved its first-ever statewide emissions controls on the booming oil and gas industry.
• Dominion Resources, one of the nation's largest energy producers, announced that it will acquire a 50% interest in a wind-turbine facility being developed by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc in Grant County, WV.