# Professor Robert Whitelaw is quoted in a feature story on organizations with investments in fossil fuels

1 Faculty News May 15, 2018 ![NBC News online logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_037262.gif?itok=6hhedDRK)>

Excerpt from [NBC News](https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Paradise-Papers-Secret-Documents-Reveal-Environmental-Groups-Invest-in-Oil-Drilling-482607881.html) -- "'Those funds are set up to last you know up to, say, 10 years, and those are going to be extremely difficult to divest from and maybe even costly,' said NYU professor of entrepreneurial finance [Robert Whitelaw](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-whitelaw)."

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