Last year was a great year for oil companies.

A handful of public companies are involved with the different parts of a solution.

There have been many scary sell-offs along the way, but stocks have always overcome more difficult environments than what we are presently facing.

The University announced that its Board of Trustees has voted to dissociate from 90 companies, each active in the thermal coal or tar sands segments of the fossil fuel industry. Companies on the list include Exxon, Imperial Oil and TotalEnergies.

Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock prior to its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive its next dividend.