The Rockefellers call it quits on oil, divesting themselves from fossil fuel industries

The World | Sep 23, 2014
The name “Rockefeller” is just about synonymous with wealth and power in America. It’s also pretty much synonymous with oil. The family’s vast fortune stems from the oil empire that patriarch John D. Rockefeller built a century ago.

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