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Student group wants pledge from ‘U’ to dump coal
A student group at the University of Minnesota wants the school to set a time line for phasing out the burning of coal on campus.
Students Beyond Coal, part of a national Sierra Club campaign, will stage a rally today against the fuel, which is a major source of greenhouse gases and other pollution.
“We want to support what the University has done already” to reduce its coal use and energy consumption, said Siri Simons, a sophomore environmental studies student, “and we want to pressure them to keep moving in that direction.”
But is completely cutting coal from the equation realistic? Read the rest of this entry »
