Rejecting Campus Consensus, MIT Cozies Up to Fossil Fuels

After years of talk, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has finally announced its plan to tackle climate change — and it's more of the same. MIT will seek to continue its energy research, with much of the financial support coming from fossil fuel companies. And most controversially, to stay in the fossil fuel industry's good graces, MIT will keep investing in fossil fuels — even in fuels that most severely undermine climate change mitigation, like coal and tar sands oil.

This insistence on continued investment in fossil fuels flies in the face of the consensus on campus, built on years of campaigning by students, faculty and alumni, and canonized by MIT's official Climate Change Conversation Committee, which surveyed campus ideas and, in the end, urged the president to divest from coal, tar sands oil and companies that spread climate disinformation....

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