University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Plant

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has a physical plant that uses coal. In 2009 Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle backed off a 2006 campaign promise that Stevens Point, as well as the University of Wisconsin’s Oshkosh and River Falls campuses, be energy independent by 2012 after determining it was not practical as proposed. The campuses continue to burn coal to heat and cool their buildings. The goal now is to require them to cut their carbon dioxide emissions to the level of those produced by their 2005 electricity consumption.

The Sierra Club contends that the Stevens Point plant, along with the University of Wisconsin's Eau Claire, Stout, and La Crosse coal-burning plants are all in violation of the EPA’s Clean Air Act because they didn't install modern pollution controls when making plant renovations.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Campus coal plants
 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * Opposition to existing coal plants
 * Coal
 * Coal and jobs
 * Coal-fired power plant capacity and generation
 * Coal phase-out
 * Coal plant conversion projects
 * Coal plants near residential areas

External resources

 * Anne C. Mulkern, "Colleges Are Battlegrounds for Coal Fight," Greenwire, October 14, 2009.
 * Campuses Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club, September 2009.
 * "DOE Announces Winners of Annual University Coal Research Grants," July 7, 2005.
 * American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment