Final Project: Students for Environmental Concerns

Beyond coal is a committee under SECS that focuses on issues related to the coal industry. They believe that the university should stop supporting the coal industry by ending the financial support of the industry. They have had protests and rally to voice their opinions on campus every semester. They have successfully pushed the university to promise to shut down the Abbott power plant and have been pushing the university to stop funding the coal industry. Students and faculty have all voted “yes” to divest the investment in the coal industry, yet the university has not actually taken action to do so. Therefore, the committee has been using different resources and methods to make sure that the university does that as soon as possible.