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In August 2019, Lauren Ledford and her roommates moved into a house on Cameron Court, excited to start the new school year.
A year later, they moved out because they didn’t like the neighbors.
Or, more specifically, one neighbor – UNC-Chapel Hill’s cogeneration plant, which produces steam and electricity by burning coal and natural gas.
For Ledford, an environmental studies major, living next to a coal-burning plant gave her “an uneasy feeling.”
“I didn’t even know that the university had that until I moved there,” she said. “They keep it so hidden, and I didn’t like that.”