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AU Combined Heat and Power System Reuses Waste Heat, Saves Campus Energy and Money
Natural gas-fired microturbines generate electricity locally on-campus
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AU Earns Tree Campus USA Designation for 10th Year in a Row
This summer, American University received the Tree Campus USA designation by the Arbor Day Foundation for the 10th year in a row.
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New Gas Turbines Now Generating Onsite Electricity 2020
Installation of turbines reduces AU’s off-site electrical energy generation, purchasing, and delivery.
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A Conversation with Mary Nichols – Chair, California Air Resources Board
If you ask Mary Nichols what the biggest air pollution and climate challenge of the next few years will be for California and the country, she feels the answer is obvious: our “seeming inability to solve the political impasse.â€
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