Fossil fuels get the nuclear treatment in new climate effort
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2020/01/28: Activists and advocates seeking to abolish nuclear weapons gathered at the steps of City Hall for a press conference followed by a hearing at New York City Council on two pieces of disarmament legislation that instruct the Comptroller of New York to divest the citys pensions and finances from nuclear weapons producers, to affirm New York City as a nuclear weapons-free zone and for the City Council to officially urge the federal government to sign and ratify the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. | Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images The new push for a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty