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Climate Activists Push Harvard to Ditch Fossil Fuel Investments

Originally published in Open Media Boston by Tate Williams (Staff), Dec-21-12

Cambridge, Mass. - With climate change policy deadlocked, there’s a rapidly growing movement on campuses nationwide to convince universities to yank their investments in fossil fuel companies.

And at Harvard—where the nation’s largest, $30.7 billion endowment makes it the top target—student activists are seeing what they hope are signs that the administration might budge on the issue.

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