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From public health to public lands, here are 15 ways the next president could affect the climate and your life.

"Climate and environment policies are one issue that we need to bring to the voting booth — there are lots of others," said Catholic Climate Covenant executive director and founder Dan Misleh. "I would encourage people to understand Catholic social doctrine, and our Gospels — and bring that to the voting booth."

A new national survey found that young people place the greatest responsibility on the government to address climate change. One in three say they will support candidates who share their climate views.

On Sept.10, Catholic Bishop Leonard Ndjadi Ndjate, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said the treaty was an ethical imperative that served the best interest of humanity.

The lawsuit, filed on the same day as a similar lawsuit by environmental groups, follows a two-year investigation into what the California attorney general has called the petrochemical industry’s "decades-long deception campaign" over the sustainability of plastics and the feasibility of plastics recycling.

Conservative Catholics who support the demise of the Chevron deference cite agency overreach and religious freedom. But some Catholics say the SCOTUS ruling undermines the common good and Catholic social teaching.
 

A coalition of Western Apache people, along with other Native American and non-Indigenous supporters, under the banner of the non-profit Apache Stronghold, asked the U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 11 to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat, Arizona, from destruction by a copper mining giant after a federal appeals court rejected their request.
 

Visiting the Oceania region where Pope Francis will head next week, the United Nations secretary-general called for international action, and financing, to bolster Pacific island nations facing rising seas and other impacts of climate change.