Newsletter Photo by Manu Ros on Unsplash Harvard professor’s fossil fuel links under scrutiny over climate grant Colleagues and students query the role of Jody Freeman, who won a prestigious research grant despite sitting on ConocoPhillips board.
www.theguardian.com Harvard and Yale students disrupt football game for fossil fuel protest Students began campaigning in 2012 for both universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies that contribute to climate crisis
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities Many students and professors at US colleges and universities want their schools to divest holdings in fossil fuel companies, but it's a hard sell for school administrators.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities