Mayor de Blasio & Comptroller Stringer (photo: Benjamin Kanter/Mayor's Office)
Amid the larger discussion about addressing climate change before it’s too late, debate is raging in New York over whether government-run and -affiliated pension funds worth hundreds of billions of dollars and responsible for payments that support hundreds of thousands of retirees should divest from fossil fuel company stock.
Advocates, elected officials, and others have been pushing at the city and state levels for full divestment so that the pension funds
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