Well, it is nice to see legal eagle Maurice Emmer’s questionable Americanism and America first stance commentary letter about American citizenship and loyalty for all to read (“All American, period,” Aspen Times, May 19) and digest for food for thoughtful.
“This report,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, “must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.”
Cudmore: Settler in the town of Charleston was Revolutionary War hero | The Daily Gazette
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Researchers agree that Thomas Machin was the engineer who had two metal chains forged and strung across the Hudson River near West Point to prevent British warships from traveling from New York City up the Hudson to Albany to thwart the American Revolution.
There is also agreement that after the war Machin settled in Charleston in Montgomery County, south of the Mohawk River.
But Bevis Longstreth, in his recent historical novel “Chains Across the River,” disputes an account that Machin had supported the cause of liberty as far back as 1773 when he supposedly was one of the men who threw tea into Boston Harbor.
Organizers from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard â an activist group calling for Harvard to divest from the fossil fuel industry â met with senior staff members from the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey â92 Friday to discuss a legal complaint they filed in March over the Universityâs investments.
The grievance, filed by Divest Harvard on March 15, alleges that Harvardâs continued investment in fossil fuels violates a provision of the 2009 Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act â a state law that stipulates not-for-profit entities have a duty to invest in line with their charitable missions.
As of February, the Universityâs fossil fuel holdings are valued at less than two percent of its $41.9 billion endowment.