72% of Harvard Students Vote to Divest from Fossil Fuels

EcoWatch: On Nov. 16, the Harvard College Undergraduate Council announced that the student body had voted 72 percent in favor of Harvard University divesting its $30.7 billion endowment from fossil fuels. Members of the Harvard chapter of Students for a Just and Stable Future have been campaigning since September to divest Harvard's endowment from the top 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel corporations that own the majority of the world's oil, coal and gas reserves. Chloe Maxmin, a co-coordinator for Divest...

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