Alternative Energy Daily News - April 9, 2007

• In an effort to keep its town clean and its environment unspoiled the aptly named Canadian town of Leaf Rapids has banned retailers from using plastic bags.

• Can New York's East River generate electricity?

• Europe is putting enormous faith in U.S. states to drive federal U.S. action against climate change, the top environmental aide to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told Reuters.

• Building on efforts to expand the use of clean and renewable energy, Dallas, TX has started running much of its fleet on biodiesel. The city is taking it a step further by becoming the first fleet in the nation to utilize a new biodiesel additive that reduces NOx (oxides of nitrogen) emissions, one of the primary causes of the ozone pollution problem in North Texas.

• Thousands of federal buildings would get more efficient lights and other equipment to reduce energy use under a Senate bill with bipartisan and White House support.