Rockefellers go green: Rockefeller foundation divests funds in fossil fuel industries

Rockefellers go green: Rockefeller foundation divests funds in fossil fuel industries

‘The American family that for decades has been synonymous not just with great riches but with riches created by oil said on Monday that it was moving to divest itself entirely from all oil and fossil fuel interests.
Descendants of John D Rockefeller, who tapped the black gushers of Texas and California more than a century ago to forge Standard Oil, a company that was later to spawn such names as Exxon, Chevron, Amoco and Mobil, announced the decision on the eve of the climate change summit in New York.’
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