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Harvard students increase the pressure on their administration to divest from fossil fuels

Environment

In the 1980s, during Apartheid in Sound Africa, about 150 universities divested their endowments of stocks with companies that did business in South Africa. Today, a growing movement at American universities is pressing their institutions to divest in companies that do business in fossil fuels.

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