A movement to divest from fossil fuel is gaining support among foundations as activists push for funding to be shifted away from coal, oil, and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable ...

Climate change is anthropogenic. Human activity and, in particular, our dependence on fossil fuels, causes it. Funds from private institutions — Georgetown University included — help prop up the ...

Following the Board of Trustees’ Friday decision to institute a moratorium on new private investments focused on fossil fuels, many questions linger about the details, with some feeling dismayed over ...

Officials announced Monday that GW has fully divested from companies tied to fossil fuel extraction, fulfilling a promise the ...

Seventeen foundations with nearly $2-billion in assets have vowed to divest the fossil-fuel stocks in their endowments and invest at least 5 percent of their assets in clean-energy companies, and they ...

The Catholic Church in Austria is ceasing all investments in fossil fuels. At their spring assembly, the Episcopal Conference of Austria announced March 22 the country's bishops and all institutions ...

More than 100 students, faculty and other members of the Smith community gathered February 24 in the Campus Center to discuss fossil fuel investments and the college’s endowment. Sponsored by the ...

BOSTON (AP) - Many mainline Protestant churches in New England say unlimited coal, oil, and gas production are immoral and are asking their denominations to divest from fossil fuel companies. The ...

A group of protesters known as the “Climate Lamentors” stand in front of the CalPERS board of administration during an investment committee meeting on Monday, Nov. 17, urging the board to divest from ...

Despite chilling winds and drizzling rain, dozens of students clad in orange gathered on Ho Plaza Friday afternoon to rally for the University’s divestment from fossil fuel. “We will not rest ‘till ...

A student resolution under discussion by the University of Utah’s student government argues that fossil-fuel-driven climate change results in 400,000 deaths globally every year. The resolution’s ...

A long-awaited University report, authored by the Faculty Panel on Fossil Fuel Disassociation, has proposed criteria for identifying companies from which the University may possibly divest holdings of ...