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Dunster House at Harvard University. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Activists from Boston College and Harvard University are making a new argument in their fight agains climate change: Their schools’ fossil fuel investments aren’t just immoral, they’re illegal.
Harvard students, alumni and professors on Monday filed a complaint with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey s office, arguing that the university s fossil fuel investment holdings violate the state’s Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, which outlines certain “charitable” responsibilities for all non-profit institutions. The 56-page complaint was also signed by nine local government officials, including Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu. ....

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