
Urging lawmakers to pass the Climate Superfund Act and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act

Urging lawmakers to pass the Climate Superfund Act and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act

‘If we continue down the road of empty environmental rhetoric by legislative and executive leaders, it will be deadly’
NJ Spotlight NewsProtestors are calling on Rutgers to divest from Israel, reinvest resources in Newark
NJ Spotlight NewsThe hunger strike was part of a larger pro-Palestinian sit-in that began April 25
NJ Spotlight NewsRepublican lawmakers are also calling for separate hearings
(Hannah Gross/NJ Spotlight News)The Rutgers – New Brunswick breakthrough is an outlier as pro-Palestinian protests continue to roil campuses

Interview: Dany Bahar, associate professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute

During a Rutgers Board of Governors meeting on Thursday

Rutgers president calls the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement 'wrong'
(Lowlova under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Openverse)Climate activists applaud goals of new bill, but opponents say moving out of fossil fuels could have serious consequences for troubled public-worker pension fund
NJ Spotlight NewsThey urged state lawmakers pass bills to move NJ to a cleaner future

Divestment is not only the right thing to do; it also makes financial sense