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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

News reports from 2015 suggest Exxon Mobile conducted several studies on climate change. Eighty percent of the studies determined human activities worsen climate change, but the majority of those released to the public suggest the phenomena is a sham.

Editorial: Immediate action necessary to limit affects of climate change

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 11, 2018
The fate of our planet rests in the hands of about 100 corporations, which are moving further away from the economic revolution necessary to affect climate change in large part thanks to the rollback of important EPA measures. They should be moving in the opposite direction.
Steven Cohen, former policy advisor of the Environmental Protection Agency and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, spoke to a crowd about climate change and renewable energy in Alumni Hall Monday afternoon. (Photo by Chiara Rigaud | Contributing Writer)

Focus on policy to fight climate change

By Brian Gentry | Columnist February 28, 2018

Pitt students, alumni and environmental enthusiasts arrived at the William Pitt Union Assembly Room Monday to hear Steven Cohen give a lecture on climate change. Cohen is an unassuming New York City...

Bob Inglis, a former U.S. Representative and Executive Director of republicEn, co-led a presentation on social and political polarization. (Photo by Issi Glatts | Staff Photographer)

Event explores conflict over climate change

By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer October 30, 2017

Highlighting the existing political lines at Pitt was not what Samuel Ressin had in mind while planning his Polarization vs. the Planet event. Ressin — the president of the Climate Stewardship Society...

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher talks to members of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition Feb. 24 at Pitt's Board of Trustees meeting at the William Pitt Union. (TPN File Photo)

Op-Ed: Chancellor Gallagher: Now’s the time for fossil fuel divestment

By Fossil Free Pitt Coalition October 26, 2017

Dear Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, At the Fall Sustainability Fair this October, Mayor Bill Peduto signed our petition demanding the University of Pittsburgh divest its holdings from fossil fuel companies,...

(Illustration by Garrett Aguilar | Staff Illustrator)

Climate change should hit close to home

By Brian Gentry | For The Pitt News September 18, 2017

The apple core I had just tossed had no sooner hit the bottom of the bin when I heard the familiar scolding from my mom. Once again, I had forgotten to put it in the compost bin. As a kid, I didn’t...

Danah Bialoruski

Don’t let fear undermine environmental threats

ISIS achieved one of its main goals this year: it successfully became the world’s primary security concern. Here in the states, 70 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of Republicans view ISIS as “the...

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