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More US cities join push to sell off fossil fuel investments
2013-04-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: A move to turn fossil fuels into the new apartheid has gathered pace as a further nine US cities join a push to sell any investments held in the coal, oil and gas industry blamed for climate change. San Francisco; Boulder, Colorado; and Madison, Wisconsin, are three of the nine cities following Seattle, whose $2bn city employee pension fund this year started looking at selling its fossil fuel holdings following a request from the citys mayor, Mike McGinn. The move is the latest step in a campaign...
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