Featured series 
Tag: Fossil Fuels
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Nation & World
Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.
In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
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Focus on health and equity to meet 2026 climate goal, advises Sustainability Committee
Harvard is engaging its researchers and industry climate leaders to identify and invest in projects, according to the Harvard Presidential Committee on Sustainability.
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A gold star for going green
Harvard received an award at the Climate Leadership Conference in Baltimore, recognizing its commitment to the environment.
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Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use
Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.
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Bullish on clean energy
Physicist Amory Lovins outlined a path to a clean-energy future in the United States during a talk at the Kennedy School.
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Destination: Doom
A novella co-authored by Professor Naomi Oreskes imagines the long-term consequences of inaction on climate change.
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U.S. methane emissions exceed government estimates
Emissions of methane from fossil fuel extraction and refining activities in the United States are nearly five times higher than previous estimates, according to researchers at Harvard University and seven other institutions.
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Faust sets out University position on divestment
After careful review and lengthy discussion on campus, Harvard President Drew Faust issued a statement making clear that she and the Harvard Corporation consider proposals to divest the University’s endowment of holdings related to fossil fuels to be “unwise and unwarranted.”
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Earth feels impact of middle class
The rise of the middle class is a bigger environmental challenge than the rising global population, according to Sir David King, the former science adviser to the British government, who urged the adoption of sustainable development as a way to manage growing global demands in a finite world.
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Conservation’s siren song
The Harvard University Police Department rolled out six new patrol cars last month. But it wasn’t the flashing lights or fresh paint jobs that were turning heads. It was the 47 mpg, gas-electric hybrid motor under the hoods.
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The sky as a ‘sewer’
Former Vice President Al Gore repeated his call for action on climate change Wednesday, saying society is treating the skies as an “open sewer.” He spoke at Harvard’s Memorial Church in a session sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.
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A close eye on population growth
Joel Cohen, head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia universities, looked at the latest projections for world population growth, and factors that could alter them, in a Harvard talk.
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Cutting the military’s energy tether
Fueling America’s war effort is an expensive proposition, costing not only money but lives, since supply convoys are routinely attacked. The constraints imposed by an energy-hungry military prompted the Defense Department to investigate conservation techniques.
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Pondering energy’s future
Reducing dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases are the two major challenges facing U.S. energy systems, a visiting federal energy official told a Harvard audience.
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The speedup of climate change
Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.
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Just use less
Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.
