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A polar bear roams the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, where several large banks have ceased
funding new oil and gas exploration.
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An Alaskan wildlife refuge is at the center of an escalating, highly politicized sustainability debate that has pulled in big banks, federal regulators, Congress, climate activists, the oil-and-gas industry and the local Native community.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency introduced a polarizing proposal that would require big banks to reverse course on lending policies introduced to combat climate change. With just three weeks to go before the comment deadline closes, the banking industry and sustainability community are locked in battle with the oil-and-gas industry and an outgoing Republican administration that has made moves to dismantle policies seen as friendly to the environmental, social and gove
Princeton creating $5M professorship that no other N.J. college has
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
With a $5 million endowment from Google’s former CEO and his philanthropist wife, Princeton University will establish a professorship of Indigenous Studies, creating a first of its kind position for any New Jersey university.
Amid a reckoning over racial justice and the Trump Administration’s attacks on Critical Race Theory, the announcement comes “at a time when people around the globe are giving new and much needed attention to the multiple strands that compose national histories,” Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber said, according to an announcement from the school.
In this brief and the accompanying Health System Dashboard, we look across over a hundred data points to assess the performance of the health system in the United States. This year, the coronavirus pandemic has upended lives and economies and fundamentally challenged health systems across the globe. At the time of this publication, the U.S. leads in the total number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 and has a higher per capita death rate than many similarly wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations with above median gross domestic product (GDP) and median GDP per capita).