Arguments over fossil-fuel investing are gushing to the surface ahead of an energy conference this week. Activists have been pressuring university endowments, pensions and other institutional investors to shed their coal, oil and gas investments. Those efforts have drawn the attention of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, a trade group for oil and energy companies that commissioned a survey of big investors ahead of IPAA’s investing conference starting Monday in New York. Just 2% of the 324 investors surveyed expressed “some interest” in divesting, while nearly nine of 10 respondents, or around 88%, ... (full story)