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Students Push College Fossil Fuel Divestment To Stigmatize Industry
2015-04-11 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WBFO: In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change. The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year. But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit-in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard. On the first day of an extended sit-in at the elite liberal arts college, dozens of...
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