Alternative Energy News - January 26, 2006

• Organized labor is joining forces with environmentalists to push for an eco-friendly economy.


• California regulators approved rules Thursday banning power companies from buying electricity from high-polluting sources, including most out-of-state coal-burning plants.


• Planners and scientists from Purdue, central Indiana's Clinton County and city of Frankfort, and industries Archer Daniels Midland Company and Indiana Clean Energy LLC are joining forces to use waste to produce methane for conversion to electricity.