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September 10, 2021

Harvard Divests from Fossil Fuels After Years-Long Student Campaign 
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In Massachusetts, Harvard president Lawrence Bacow said Thursday his
university will no longer invest its $42 billion endowment in fossil
fuel companies. The announcement was a victory for the campus
organization Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, which was founded in 2012. The
group tweeted, "It took conversations and protests, meetings with
administration, faculty/alumni votes, mass sit-ins and arrests, historic
legal strategies, and storming football fields. But today, we can see
proof that activism works, plain and simple."


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