Monthly Archives: December 2013

AP: Student fossil fuel divestment movement persists

By KEVIN BEGOS
Associated Press

Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013

PITTSBURGH — The student campaign to press colleges and universities to divest from fossil fuels is entering a new phase, now that administrators at several top schools have said no.

Students say the refusals from schools including Harvard, Brown and Cornell have been both a shock and a motivation for the campaign, which is active at more than 200 schools.