A Jesuit priest says he prefers going to prison than paying a 500-euro ($541) fine for participating in a climate activists' street blockade in the southern German city of Nuremberg.
Catholic Climate Covenant and the North American chapter of the Laudato Si' Movement urged President Trump to reverse his plans to expand fossil fuels, roll back regulations and exit the Paris climate accord.
A few hours after his second inauguration address on Monday, Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Denali to Mount McKinley.
"Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household made me fierce. I'll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land," Haaland said in 2021 ahead of her congressional confirmation vote.
Cardinal McElroy did not shy from calling out Trump's environmental policies during his first administration. Now, the papal ally on ecological issues will move to D.C. not long after Trump returns to the White House.
"We have to be prophets of hope" and prevent mining water contamination, "including physically, if necessary," Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez said in a homily, as El Salvador is poised to reverse its ban on metal mining.
Dislodging climate change from the culture wars might feel nearly impossible. But scientists have found ways to talk about the changing weather that resonate with conservative segments of the U.S. who have been skeptical of global warming.
The White House announced a new national goal that would see the country's greenhouse gas emissions drop up to 66%, but its fulfillment may fall on states and cities during a second Trump administration.
