Fossil  Free  Penn  --  as  seen  in  the  News

2023

Penn’s hiring of lobbyists working in fossil fuel industry draws criticism from Fossil Free Penn | 5 October, 2023

University of Pennsylvania: Students Organizing Over Climate, Housing Are Arrested at Homecoming | 26 May, 2023

Penn Alumni event attendees reflect on Fossil Free Penn interruption, condemn protest tactics | 2 March, 2023

Protestors disrupt Magill speech at Penn Alumni event, urge Penn to preserve UC Townhomes | 13 February, 2023

Students condemn Penn’s disciplinary actions against protestors at rally, U. Council Open Forum | 12 February, 2023

2022

Penn Student Government’s judicial branch declares support for FFP protestors’ open expression | 22 November, 2022

Penn students end nearly six-week encampment on College Green after their football game protest | 24, October 2022

Fossil Free Penn ends encampment after 39 days following Homecoming football game protest | 23 October, 2022

Fossil Free Penn protestors storm field during Homecoming football game, halting play for over an hour | 22 October, 2022

Nearly a month in, Fossil Free Penn’s encampment continues despite harsh weather conditions | 10 October, 2022

"Penn, Daily": S3E1: Inside the Fossil Free Penn encampment | 4 October, 2022

Visiting international climate experts commend Fossil Free Penn’s encampment, demands | 2 October, 2022

Inside the encampment: Tight-knit community fuels weeks-long Fossil Free Penn protest | 29 September, 2022

At press conference, Fossil Free Penn alleges admin. are intimidating encampment protestors | 27 September, 2022

73 Penn Faculty | Letter in support of student protestors | 25 September, 2022

Fossil Free Penn encampment returns to College Green, calling for divestment, UC Townhomes action | 16 September, 2022

49 Penn Faculty | In support of FFP's encampment | 27 April, 2022

Penn students are camping out on the campus green to get their environmental demands met | 20 April, 2022

Demanding divestment, Fossil Free Penn is camping out on College Green | 21 April, 2022

Fossil Free Penn launches campaign demanding University to 'cut all ties' to fossil fuels | 9 February, 2022
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2021

Student groups criticize Penn for stopping short of divestment in latest climate policy update | 9 November, 2021

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2020

Fossil Free Penn blockades board meeting, forcing most trustees to leave through fire exit | 28 February, 2020

FFP protests outside Van Pelt for Global Divestment Day with local climate activists | 13 February, 2020

2019

Guest Column by seven Penn faculty members | We support student climate change action | 11 November, 2019

About 100 Fossil Free Penn members shut down Board of Trustees meeting | 8 November, 2019

Photo Essay | The Fossil Free Penn protest that shut down Board of Trustees meeting | 8 November, 2019

Weekly Fossil Free Penn sit-ins demand a public town hall on University's investments | 29 September, 2019

2018

Undergraduate Assembly votes 17-1 on resolution calling for Penn to divest from fossil fuels | 16 September, 2018

Narrowing its focus, Fossil Free Penn targets divestment from coal and tar sands | 30 January, 2018

2017

Sixty students marched into the Trustees meeting on Friday calling for fossil fuel divestment | 
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Fossil Free Penn staged a silent protest at the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday | 
​28 September , 2017 
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Fossil Free Penn ready for another semester facing off against the University on divestment | 3 September, 2017

Penn has rejected students' latest proposal to divest from the fossil fuel industry | 20 June, 2017

The Philly Inquirer | Penn reaffirming its commitment to the environment smells like hypocrisy | 8 June, 2017 

Fossil Free Penn says Penn has a responsibility to take a stronger stance on climate change | 5 June, 2017

Group Think | How to engage the Penn administration | 9 April, 2017

Guest Column by Zach Rissman | Behind closed doors: Sit-in negotiations and Penn’s blatant hypocrisy | 4 April, 2017

With four-day sit-in behind them, Fossil Free Penn members express optimism about future​ | 3 April, 2017

Fossil Free Penn remains in College Hall, members are allegedly ‘written up’ by University | 30 March, 2017

The Washington Post | Students block entrances to Harvard building, demanding coal divestment in wake of Trump action | 29 March, 2017

The Philadelphia Inquirer | Penn students stage sit in over fossil fuel investments | 27 March, 2017

EcoWatch | With Sleeping Bags in Tow, 33 Students Begin Sit In Demanding University Divestment From Fossil Fuels | 27 March, 2017 

Guest Column by Julia Lesko | Penn should reflect its value for open discourse | 1 March, 2017

Fossil Free Penn members don surgical masks at UCouncil forum to protest University's decision against divestment | 22 February, 2017

2016 

How Fossil Free Penn will move forward following Trump's win | 22 November, 2016

Green Philly: Penn Students Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment | 15 November, 2016

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn students hold sit-in over fossil fuel divestment | 10 November, 2016

Sources: Gutmann, Cohen agree to meet with student protesters after sit-in | 10 November, 2016

Fossil Free Penn to stage a sit-in in Amy Gutmann's office | 10 November, 2016

Editorial by The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board | Penn's reasons for not divesting are lacking | 27 October, 2016

Guest column by Peter Thacher| An Unjust Decision Borne Of A Bad Faith Process | 17 October, 2016

Students protest Trustee's decision to not divest from fossil fuel industry | 27 September, 2016

The Trustees voted against divestment, but Fossil Free Penn is planning to fight on | 27 September, 2016

Over one hundred faculty sign letter in favor of divestment | April 12, 2016

Uncovering bias in Penn's important process​ | March 29, 2016

Cameron Dichter: Students versus the Board of Trustees​ | March 13, 2016

The Washington Post: An oilman’s $7 billion refresher course in the economics of drilling and climate change | March 12, 2016

​Guest column by Rita Wegner| Power Down the Endowment | March 1, 2016

Penn forms Ad Hoc Committee to consider fossil fuel divestment | January 14, 2016

2015 

2015: Year in Review | December 9, 2015
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Students cry for Gutmann to make Penn fossil-free | December 3, 2015

Fossil Free Penn takes next steps to promote divestment | October 30, 2015

Rita Wegner and Peter Thacher: After referendum success, many steps remain in achieving fossil fuel divestment  | April 7, 2015

Fossil Fuel referendum draws larger voter turnout than midterm elections | March 2, 2015

Editorial: Vote on divestment, because there's nothing to lose | February 25, 2015

Five myths about fossil fuel divestment | February 25, 2015

Fossil fuel referendum reaches checkpoint | February 25, 2015

Referendum is early step on staircase to fossil fuel divestment | February 23, 2015

Guest column by Peter Thacher | Why you should vote yes to divest | February 18, 2015

2014

Trustees approve new degrees, discuss projects at Oct. meeting | November 3, 2014

Gutmann’s climate plan is not enough | October 28, 2014

New club encourages divestment from fossil fuels | September 29, 2014

2013

Students ask Penn to divest fossil fuel investments  | February 12, 2013

Source: Hailey Edelstein, The Daily Pennsylvanian