Following fossil fuel divestment, alumni call on Harvard to remove research ties to Big Oil and increase transparency. — CAMBRIDGE, MA: One year after Harvard’s historic pledge to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies, a coalition of Harvard graduates is calling on the university to go further. Concerned about ongoing entanglements with the fossil fuel industry, a new report from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard Alumni (FFDHA) argues that…

Administration won’t defend Harvard against Big Oil. So students are stepping up — CAMBRIDGE — This past week, students around the world staged coordinated actions calling for an end to Big Oil’s toxic presence on campus. On Thursday, Harvard students joined the call with an occupation of the university’s main administrative building. The demand was clear: that Harvard adopt a policy of fossil…

A Company that Lies to Young People Shouldn’t be Welcome on Campus, Say Students — CAMBRIDGE — On Wednesday, around 30 members of the Harvard and MIT communities disrupted a recruiting event by ExxonMobil. The presentation, which was held in the offices of the MIT Earth and Planetary Sciences department and advertised to Harvard science students, was intended to convince students to participate in the…

Students, faculty, and alumni: the next President must be a climate champion — In the wake of President Lawrence Bacow’s decision to step down at the end of the academic year, Harvard University is in the process of searching for its next leader. Earlier this year, the Search Committee issued an open call for input from the Harvard community. Today, student, faculty, and…

Campaign calls on notorious oil and gas profiteer, university trustee, to stop putting his interests before Harvard’s — CAMBRIDGE — Yesterday, Harvard students rallied with a simple call: Rubenstein, Recuse or Resign. The message, directed towards university trustee and notorious oil and gas profiteer David Rubenstein, called on him to obey basic principles of legal ethics and step back from decisions regarding the university’s response to the climate…

Last fall, the movement forced Harvard to commit to divestment. Celebrating its historic year, FFDH talks about what’s next — In the fall of 2021, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard (FFDH) won a ten year campaign to force Harvard, the world’s richest private university, to divest from fossil fuels. This week, the movement of students, alumni, and faculty celebrated this historic victory for the institution and planet, and discussed the campaign’s…

500+ top academics: Fossil fuel money creates conflicts of interest that hurt us all — Universities around the world are trying to become leaders on climate. But so long as they allow fossil fuel companies to fund climate research, say a group of leading academics, they’re holding themselves back. The call comes in the form of a landmark open letter in which some of the…

Students at Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, and Vanderbilt Argue that Fossil Fuel Investments Aren’t Just Immoral, but Illegal — Last March, members of the Harvard community helped develop a legal strategy holding that the school’s fossil fuel investments weren’t just immoral, but illegal — a step that played a massive role in forcing the university to divest a few months later. Now, the legal movement is spreading, with students…

Follows report finding numerous conflicts of interest in university climate research — CAMBRIDGE, MA: Harvard’s recent commitment to fossil fuel divestment, after ten years of protest, was a historic victory for activists and for the planet. And now, fresh off this win, activists are continuing to hold the university accountable for its fossil fuel entanglements. Earlier this week, a report revealed that…