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May 9, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Columbia Could Take Major Financial Hit Over Response to Gaza Protests
More than 1,000 alums have pledged to withhold support from the school.
April 22, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Here’s What the Columbia University Protests Have Started Elsewhere
Columbia students’ protest in support of Palestine has sparked solidarity demonstrations across the country.
October 12, 2022
Ilana Cohen, Michael E. Mann
Princeton Will Stop Taking Oil Money. Now the Pressure Is on Harvard, MIT, and Columbia.
Rich, elite institutions should stop taking donations from the fossil fuel industry immediately, to preserve the integrity of their climate research.
June 8, 2020
Benjamin Franta
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.
December 2, 2015
Rebecca Leber
The fossil fuel divestment movement reached a new milestone: $3.4 trillion in assets.
September 22, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Over $2 Trillion Now Divested From Fossil Fuels. Why Hasn't the Vatican Joined?
May 21, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Divestment Won't Hurt Big Oil, and That's OK
May 23, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Truth About Stanford's Coal Divestment
December 11, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Gun Control Advocates Are Embracing a Tactic That Beat Apartheid

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