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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Students protest Northwestern’s investments in the coal industry in 2014. Members of Fossil Free Northwestern, the group pushing for divestment from coal, oil and gas companies, have been fighting against the University’s investment in the fossil fuel industry for years.

Fossil Free NU plans sit-in after Board of Trustees refuses to meet at March conference

February 17, 2016

The full Northwestern Board of Trustees will not meet with Fossil Free NU — a group seeking coal divestment — at the board’s March conference, Chief Investment Officer Will McLean said. Community...

Representative for nuclear nonproliferation Adam Scheinman discusses the advantages of ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The treaty would ban all nuclear testing both above and below ground, and requires ratification from the United States among other countries.

Obama representative on nuclear nonproliferation encourages U.S., others to ratify nuclear test ban treaty

February 2, 2016

President Barack Obama’s representative on nuclear nonproliferation spoke Wednesday on the value of adopting a nuclear test ban treaty in bringing eventual disarmament to the international community. Adam...

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl addresses City Council. Tisdahl announced Monday that she had joined a Compact of Mayors committed to reducing the carbon footprint of their municipalities.

Tisdahl joins Compact of Mayors, reasserts commitment to environmental action

January 27, 2016

Following the warmest year in recorded history, the city announced Monday that Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl had committed Evanston to the Compact of Mayors, a group dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions...

Northwestern signs national White House climate pledge

November 24, 2015

Ahead of the United Nations conference on climate change in December, Northwestern signed President Barack Obama’s American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge. The University joined more than 200 campuses...

Drumm: U.S. must rethink its Middle Eastern policy

October 20, 2015

Two weeks ago, in an ancient Afghan city near the border with Tajikistan, the United States military bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital. The profoundly tragic incident in Kunduz speaks to a larger...

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