On Thursday, September 29th, Princeton University announced a commitment to divest and dissociate from 90 oil and gas companies, severing both endowment ties and research partnerships with parts of the fossil fuel industry."
"After a decade of student organizing, Princeton made a pledge to divest its endowment and reject fossil fuel money."
"Faculty and staff at Cambridge are planning a vote that would require the university to stop accepting fossil fuel money for research. It’s part of an expanding movement."
"When presented with the statement “Colleges and universities studying the impacts of climate change and sustainability should refuse donations from fossil fuel companies so they can remain unbiased in their research,” 57 percent of voters agree and only 29 percent of voters disagree."
"Climate activists, emboldened by their success in pushing wealthy universities to divest their stocks from fossil fuel companies, are now looking to a new and even thornier target: the billions of dollars universities accept from those companies for climate research."
"As oil and gas companies report record profits, the Fossil Free Research campaign calls on universities to refuse their donations and maintain independence."
"Students and faculty are shining a light on fossil fuel infiltration of academia and organizing to ban fossil fuel dollars from climate and energy research."
