Alternative Energy Weekend Links

• Hybrids are quietly starting to show up in other transportation uses besides just autos, from locomotives to construction equipment.

• ConocoPhillips announced its support for a mandatory national framework to address greenhouse gas emissions and has joined the US Climate Action Partnership, a business-environmental leadership group dedicated to the quick enactment of national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

• Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announced the availability of $31.4 million in grants to help businesses and organizations develop clean energy and alternative fuel projects.

• North Dakota, the state ranked #1 in wind-energy potential by the American Wind Energy Association, will soon be home to a 159-megawatt wind farm in the northeast corner of the state.

• Nearly half of all U.S. states are using enough renewable energy to make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, a scientific group said Tuesday.