Student-led campaigns at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and Vanderbilt filed complaints Wednesday with state attorneys general in a coordinated effort to compel universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
On Nov. 1, Abby Herd helped lead a group of Simon Fraser University students over the finish line as they won an eight-year campaign to persuade the administration to divest from fossil fuels by 2025.
A University of Pittsburgh panel that weighed fossil fuel divestment has delivered to school trustees for their review on Friday a report with options that stop short of completely eliminating those holdings in the near future, as activists have sought.
