This Tuesday students at WashU are turning the heat back up on Big Coal, and you're invited to participate. On Tuesuday, April 25th, the Student Union is hosting
a debate between Fred Palmer, VP of Governmental Relations at Peabody Energy and Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, moderated by Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine.
The debate comes on the heels of some great campus discussion and action. Students at WashU are working to rename an on-campus industry sponsored initiative: the Consortium for C!#@n Coal Utilization, and have taken action by flash mobbing a coal exectuive meet-up, protesting at Peabody's Headquarters and taking the discussion around coal and our clean energy future to Missouri Senator Claire McKaskill.
Missouri is an important place to be talking about coal. Approximately 83.5% of the state's energy comes from the black rock, and St. Louis is home to the corporate headquarters of the two largest American coal extraction companies, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal. With the CEOs of both Peabody Energy and Arch Coal on Wash U's board of trustees, as well as a heavily-funded coal energy research group, Washington University in St. Louis is a particularly good place to talk about coal. So please join us!
The Great Coal Debate: Tuesday, April 27th, at 5:00pm.
You can join through a livestream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-great-coal-debate
Or in-person at Graham Chapel on Washington University's Danforth Campus on. Doors will over at 4:30. Following the debate will be a reception in the nearby Danforth University Center's Tisch Commons.
