Tag: fossil fuel divestment
Students clash with UW Board of Regents over divestment and transparency...
Student activists demand divestment and transparency from the University of Wisconsin, facing police crackdowns and administrative pushback.
University of Toronto students score a win for the climate—and campus...
“This victory shows students have the ability to enact institutional change."
Exposed: How Big Oil is buying influence at America’s top universities
A new student-led report reveals how six prestigious universities have received millions from the fossil fuel industry, raising concerns about conflicts of interest, research bias, and the need for academic independence from polluting sectors.
Climate confrontation: Over 50 arrested as activists target Citigroup’s climate policies
Protesters descend on Citigroup's Manhattan HQ, igniting a 'Summer of Heat' against banks fueling fossil fuel projects and escalating the climate crisis.
Climate activists blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to demand banking giant...
Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas.
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel...
The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.
Hospitals are investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, report reveals
Should hospitals decide not to join the fossil fuel divestment movement, they risk betraying their mission to serving their patients, new report said.
World’s biggest banks poured $673 billion into fossil fuels last year
“This is one of the most insane misallocations of capital in human history.”
As California considers dropping fossil fuels from major pension funds, new...
“California cannot be a climate justice leader if we continue to invest in the companies that are polluting our environment.”
New report: World’s 60 largest banks have poured $3.8 trillion into...
Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016.
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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...
As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage
More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.
Everything old is new again
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.