The Springfield Republican/MassLive.com recently published a story regarding the history of pension divestment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the current push for the state to divest its pension assets from the fossil fuel industry. Shira Schoenberg writes: “In 1997, then-state Sen. Warren Tolman co-sponsored a bill to divest the state’s pension fund from tobacco companies. It was a way to stigmatize the companies and force them to stop marketing to young people. Years earlier, Tolman had supported divesting the state’s holdings from companies doing business in South Africa, part of a campaign to end apartheid. ‘I think you look …