Vanderbilt celebrates end of coal; prepares to tear down smokestack
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2015 · Education
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Provost Susan Wente, Vanderbilt Student Government President Tanner Owen and other university leaders gathered on the patio outside Sarratt Cinema in sight of the power plant smokestack April 9 to celebrate the end of coal burning at Vanderbilt. Demolition of the smokestack will begin soon and is expected to conclude in early June. After relying on coal to produce much of the university’s electricity and cooling and most of its heat for 126 years, the university power plant ceased burning coal on Nov. 19 and now runs exclusively on natural gas, greatly reducing the university’s carbon footprint. Read more: http://vanderbi.lt/948b6 Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
