How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won
by Ilana Cohen, The Nation.
Climate activists at other institutions can learn from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard after their victory at the world’s richest university.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was produced for Student Nation, a program of The Nation Fund …
Pitt, The World is Watching, Divest Now
Fossil Free Pitt Coalition Press Release, Feb. 15, 2021
PITTSBURGH, PA — On Monday, February 15th at 9am, University of Pittsburgh students and allies will be installing a billboard in Oakland. The billboard, located at the intersection of Boulevard of …
DiNapoli commits New York state pension fund to net-zero emissions portfolio by 2040
ALBANY — Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has set a target of getting the state’s $226 billion pension fund’s portfolio to net-zero emissions by 2040 and outlined the most detailed path to date on reviewing — …
U Penn signs Power Purchase Agreement to supply campus with solar energy by 2023
04/16/20 The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Penn recently signed a Power Purchase Agreement for the construction of two new solar energy facilities in central Pennsylvania to supply campus with renewable energy.
The two solar energy facilities will operate …
Op-Ed: Big Insurance Is Climate’s Quiet Killer
By Elana Sulakshana Tamara Toles O’Laughlin . Rolling Stone, April 20, 2020.
A coalition of climate justice organizations is targeting Liberty Mutual for underwriting fossil fuels.
Climate and social justice advocates have long worked to connect the dots between …
Controversy over Koch Foundation Funded Center at U Pitt
Koch Foundation gift sparks heated Faculty Assembly meeting.
By SUSAN JONES, University Tiimes, Dec. 5, 2019.
“The questions and concerns surrounding a $4.2 million gift from the Koch Foundation to start a new center at Pitt’s Graduate School of Public …