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MSU increases green energy
Since 2009, Michigan State University has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent. This month the MSU power plant announced plans to stop burning coal by the end of 2016, relying instead on natural gas and biofuels.
MSU plans to be 100 percent reliant on renewable energy, utilizing the university’s anaerobic digester which transforms campus food waste and research farm manure into power.
USDA Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says MSU is an example for higher education. “These are both critical steps on the path towards a university and its stated goal of transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy and reducing its environmental impact, and providing an extraordinary example for all of higher education throughout this country.”
Vilsack was at MSU last week to announce USDA’s “Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry.”
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