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Cooperstown Included

DIVESTMENT — Investors, Cooperstown Included, Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change

Investors, Cooperstown Included,  Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change Op-Ed by LOU ALLSTADT The Freeman’s Journal, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2016 Editor’s Note: Cooperstown Village Board voted Oct. 26 to shift $140,000 in its firefighters’ and emergency squad retirement fund away from fossil-fuel stocks on the advice of Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president.  That prompted an analysis by attorney David Russell, a former pension-fund counsel in the state Comptroller’s Office.  This is Mr. Allstadt’s response to Mr.…