An MSU student environmental group will again be lobbying for renewable energy through a proposed student tax.

Eco hopes once again to gain support for a plan to implement a $5 increase in ASMSU's per semester tax to fund either wind turbines or a solar panel system, which are both considered environmentally friendly sources of energy.

Amy Gregory, a general science senior and Eco member, said the tax was introduced to MSU's student government last year,

But because than 50 percent of the MSU student population voted in the election, so the issue it must once again be brought to a student vote in March.

For each student at MSU, the university burns about 24.4 pounds of coal each day, Gregory said.

More than 44,000 students attend MSU, and the renewable energy tax would provide $220,000 each semester.