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Fordham University set to invest in environmental justice with $50 million EPA grant
… the answers is a source of such pride for us as we do this work together." Schumer called the EPA grant award "the beginning of a great success. This is a red letter day for Fordham and for … here in the Bronx." The $600 million for the Thriving Communities program was allocated to the EPA through the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation's largest-ever investment (upwards of $300 … administrator Michael Regan called the Thriving Communities program — created in 2023 as the EPA's first-ever grantmaking program for environmental justice — a response to community …
Arizona bishop thanks Pope Francis for calling out US impacts on climate change
… fossil fuels from heavy-duty vehicles and power plants are expected later this spring. EPA on Wednesday (March 20) also finalized the strongest-ever limits on tailpipe emissions from …
Faith leaders call new EPA soot limit a win for vulnerable communities
… of pollution, with communities of color and Western states most exposed to unhealthy air. The EPA estimates that the new standard by 2032 will prevent annually as many as 4,500 premature … spent on the rule, totaling $46 billion in net health benefits. The rule will also modify EPA's PM 2.5 monitoring to ensure greater data collection from communities overburdened by air …
Herring fishermen, Justice Kagan, truth and Cardinal McElroy
… on a permissible construction of the statute," the court held in 1984 . The court added: "The EPA's interpretation of the statute here represents a reasonable accommodation of manifestly …
In US, 'Laudate Deum' won't make it into many homilies or prompt any marches
… Protection Agency, the conservative court ruled against delegated authority, nullifying the EPA's ability to regulate gas emissions and help curb climate change. Ironically, these …
Bishop Weisenburger says climate change is an issue of 'life and death'
… for Catholics, and others, in Tucson to know that the U.S. bishops' conference supported the EPA proposal to put stricter limits on carbon pollution from power plants. For places with …
The increasingly perilous lot of the pilgrim shows us all the path on climate
… additional 25,303 comments from individual pro-life Christians were submitted calling on the EPA to strengthen safeguards on pollution from light- and medium-duty passenger vehicles, and a further 21,676 comments to the EPA support stronger standards on heavy-duty vehicle emissions. Further recent policy wins with …
US waterways polluted with injustice, bishops say in Season of Creation message
… that significantly reduced which watersheds are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. EPA officials said the move was a result of a decision in May by the U.S. Supreme Court, which … and as much as 63% of wetland acreage, according to a report by The Washington Post citing an EPA official. The river was selected as the symbol of this year's Season of Creation , an …
Letters to the editor on Mike Pence
… Where was he when migrant children were abducted with no plans for reunification, when the EPA was gutted, when the Muslim travel ban was instituted, when Nazis marched in Charlottesville, …
Faith leaders urge EPA to protect communities from fossil fuel-fired power plants
… rabbis and religious from 44 states and Puerto Rico wrote in a letter delivered Aug. 8 to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We have a moral obligation to protect our climate," they said, with 200-plus Catholic women religious among the signatories. In May, EPA proposed standards for carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act for new and existing power … from the combustion of fossil fuels. The proposed standards seek to curb that output, with the EPA estimating through 2042 they will cumulatively slash up to 617 million metric tons of carbon …
Michigan event backs EPA pollution limits, decries health impacts of systemic racism
… comments on postcards to be sent to the United States Environmental Protections Agency, or EPA, in support of the proposed changes. Panel host IHM Sr. Barbara Stanbridge said, "We want to encourage the EPA to truly be an environmental protection agency … not [one] protecting the fossil fuel … power sector was the next largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States in 2021. The EPA's proposed limits target these emissions, which according to the EPA are "almost entirely" …
Can churches spread the gospel of solar in coal country?
… equaling about 167,000 pounds of coal that would have been burned each year, according to the EPA's greenhouse emission calculator. (The calculator uses national averages.) With the …
Parish helps East Palestine residents amid 'a lot of uncertainty' after toxic train wreck
… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …
Despite new EPA rule to reduce pollution, Catholic activist says fight to protect communities far from over
… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …