Coal Free Mizzou demonstrators wait to present 3,000 student signatures to the University of Missouri Board of Curators during a meeting on Sept. 13 in Columbia. Chancellor Brady Deaton accepted the petition and agreed to meet with the group later.
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Demonstrators carry their banner into the MU Board of Curators meeting on Sept. 13 at the University of Missouri. Coal Free Mizzou is a student advocacy group asking UM Curators to phase out the use of coal.
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Coal Free Mizzou president Alexendra Rather leads demonstrators in a chant. “M-I-Z! Be Coal Free!” the crowd repeats. The student advocacy group wants to phase out the use of coal as an energy source at the University of Missouri.
Student advocacy group Coal Free Mizzou presented the MU Board of Curators today with 3,000 student signatures asking the University of Missouri to transition from coal to clean energy.
The group “Coal Free Mizzou” is planning to lobby directly to the Board of Curators as it meets Thursday on MU’s campus.
The goal of the group is to promote clean energy and get the university to shut down the coal-fired power plant on campus. But group spokesperson Kelsey Wingo says students are not allowed to put items on the Board of Curators agenda, so they have to get the message out in a different way.