Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter

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University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment

Some of Harvard's most prominent graduates - from Hollywood star Natalie Portman to environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr and the scholar Cornel West - called on the world's richest university to dump fossil-...

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