Among all of the beauty on campus, the tower of coal that decorates Charter Street is extremely out of place. This lump of coal is not only a disgrace to the beauty of campus, but it is the source of some of the dirty, coal-powered energy that we use on campus.
Obviously, the university needs its electricity, I’m not going to argue that. But did you know that coal power plant pollution currently causes 448 premature deaths per year in Wisconsin, according to a study from the Clean Air Task Force? It also causes 9,340 asthma attacks and costs us millions in health co