Alternative Energy Daily News - May 23,2007

• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the city's signature yellow taxi cabs would all be using hybrid energy within five years, reducing air pollution and helping to combat climate change.

• With a 52-5 vote in the Senate Monday, Illinois became only the second state to enact legislation requiring green cleaning in schools.

• An open-access paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that worldwide CO2 emissions increased between 2000 and 2004 at a rate that is nearly three times the rate of increase of the 1990s.

• An old steel mill retools to produce clean energy.