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Published: June 13, 2007
OU agrees to fight global warming
By Susan Simpson
The University of Oklahoma is among more than 280 colleges and universities nationally pledging to combat global warming.

OU, which aims to cut greenhouse emissions and be climate neutral by 2050, is the first state university to join the project sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

But other Oklahoma campuses also are looking at ways to go green, in part to c...

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