U of M Power Plant to Get Greener

From Brainerd Dispatch:

The University of Minnesota campus quite literally runs on steam —lots and lots of steam. It's used for heating in the winter, and powers equipment that provides air conditioning in the summer.

For decades that steam has been created at a university power plant fired by coal and natural gas. But after years of concern over pollution, university officials say they're going to drastically reduce the amount of coal burned at the facility near downtown Minneapolis, about 100 yards from the Mississippi River.

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