FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “About 5 percent of Rutgers’s $1.6 billion endowment is invested in fossil fuels, which the university defines as “investments in any company or fund whose primary business is the exploration or extraction of fossil fuels, including coal, oil and natural gas, or whose primary business supports this sector with infrastructure and other services,” according to a press release.” Read more here.
NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers is Latest Major University to Divest Endowment from Fossil Fuels
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