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Harvard increas fossil fuel investment despite call divest
2015-01-15 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The worlds richest university Harvard has invested ten of million of dollars in fossil fuel companies during the third quarter of 2014 despite calls for divestment from the institutions students and staff. The figures have led to several faculty members voicing their concern that investment returns are being justified at any cost, even if it negatively impacts the universitys students. According to the Guardian, Harvard has increased its investment in fossil fuel companies from $11.8 million...
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Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe Calls For Withdrawal Of EPA's Proposed Power Plant Carbon Rule
2014-12-08 02:29:28| pollutiononline News Articles
Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University,1 has called for withdrawal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions for existing power plants
The truth about Harvard race lawsuit
2014-11-24 15:41:18| IT Services - Topix.net
Editor's note: Jeff Yang is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Online and can be heard frequently on radio as a contributor to shows such as PRI's "The Takeaway" and WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show." He is the author of "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action" and editor of the graphic novel anthologies "Secret Identities" and "Shattered."
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Harvard sued over push for fossil fuels divestment
2014-11-21 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Seven Harvard University students have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to force the university's governing body to divest from fossil fuel companies. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges investment in those companies violates the university's duties as a public charity. The complaint asks the court to compel the Harvard Corporation, the governing body, to stop investing any of its $36.4 billion endowment in gas, coal and oil companies. Harvard students have pressed the university to divest from...
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Fight fiercely, Harvard, against global warming, alumnus says
2014-11-05 23:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: 'Fight fiercely, Harvard', a favorite college's song, doesn't seem to apply to climate change, an alumnus says. More than 40 years ago, as a Harvard sophomore, I sat in the classroom of Professor Roger Revelle, who was teaching a course on human population. We learned about Malthus, Norman Borlaug and the green revolution. Revelle, in his heavily stained necktie, would entertain us with mental calculations he'd performed while taking a shower earlier in the morning. Over the course of the semester,...
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