Tag: divestment
The divestment movement’s big month
The pressure and devolving social license have even started to influence business leaders’ decisions.
University of Cambridge announces divestment from fossil fuels after five-year student,...
The University of Cambridge announced it will "remove all direct and indirect investments in the fossil fuel industry from its £3.5 billion endowment fund by 2030."
What Norway’s big divestment decision means for fracking, tar sands and...
It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.
Indigenous women’s delegation takes fossil fuel divestment demands to New York...
The call from the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation is for rights and environmental violations to be more thoroughly reflected in the rating scores given to fossil fuel extraction companies.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of...
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end...
While Ireland is making history, many emphasized the need for the rest of the world to follow the Irish's lead.
As new pipelines get built, more people are standing in the...
Despite the overwhelming evidence that pipelines are unreliable and prone to leaks, energy companies continue to treat their bottom line as the only factor when making decisions.
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Behold, the new GOP culture wars
The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.
White House says GOP bill would force ‘one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts’...
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," said a White House spokesperson.
Outrage as Biden Administration recommends major Alaska oil project
"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."
‘More training’ is not the answer to police terror
The death of Tyre Nichols doesn’t have to be in vain – there are numerous opportunities for action at the local and national level to rein in out of control police terror.
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."