Coal-Free IU has had incredible success with our coverage in local newspapers like The Indiana Daily Student and The Herald Times! Check out the Campaign Coverage page for our latest news hits. Oh, and make sure to pick up a copy of the IDS tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 4 for our presence on the Opinion page!
Here is an example of a letter published in The Herald Times by our very own Novella Shuck! If the link to the letter doesn’t work, I have copied it below.
IU should phase out coal
To the editor:
I am writing to express my concern with the on-campus Indiana University coal plant. The detrimental effects to both the environment and public health that coal causes have been widely cataloged but include the release of CO2 (a leading cause of global warming
), wildlife destruction, asthma and lung cancer.
A place like IU that encourages enlightenment and education shouldn’t be so stupid as to have such an archaic industrial-era relic fueling this institution. If IU wants to be at the forefront of the future, then it should take action and do so.
Most people I speak to concede that a switch to renewable power would be an improvement, but no one believes it’s a practical option right now. However, this transition is not impossible, or even prohibitively unfeasible.
Ball State University has just recently begun a switch from coal to geothermal power, and their motivation is economical as well as environmental, saving them a considerable amount of money over the long run. We have the desire, the technology, the economic imperative and the environmental responsibility to switch from coal to renewable energy; all we lack is administrative action.
Please, support action towards renewable energy projects at Indiana University.
Novella Shuck, Bloomington
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