A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. (Photo: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News) CHAPEL HILL — On a Friday ...

UNC-Chapel Hill has withdrawn its application to burn pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal in its power plant on Cameron Avenue. The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s ...

UNC-Chapel Hill is asking the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to update its air permit to allow it to burn recycled paper-and-plastic pellets at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.

UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking an air permit that would allow it to experiment with supplanting coal with pellets made of paper and plastic scraps at its Cogeneration power plant on Cameron Avenue.

UNC’s co-generation power plant on Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill still relies largely on coal to fire its boilers and provide the campus with electricity, hot water, steam and heat. The campus has a ...

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News This story originally ...