Syracuse University students join climate change divestment campaign

Post-Standard: Students at Syracuse University have joined a national movement to demand that colleges withdraw their investments from oil, coal and gas companies. The Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign is intended to slow the development and use of fuels that scientists say cause climate change. It began in earnest at SU after an October lecture by Bill McKibben, a journalist and college professor who has been criss-crossing the country to jump-start the divestment movement. McKibben compares the divestment...

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