Don’t hinder development of pollution standard, USCCB committee chair tells Congress
June 26, 2015
The chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged Congress to “oppose legislation and appropriations riders designed to reverse efforts to implement a national standard to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants.”
“The US bishops stand united with the Holy Father in his call to protect creation,” Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami added in a June 24 letter to all members of Congress. “As government leaders, we ask you to resist any effort to impair the development of a national carbon standard and instead to support our nation’s ability to address this urgent global challenge confronting the human family.”
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Posted by: jrorr19609092 -
Jun. 26, 2015 7:25 PM ET USA
Once again. The damage you bishops have done to the nation with your "consistent ethic of life" which has NOT led to a RTL constitutional amendment after 32 years, three times longer than the original pro-life, anti-abortion movement started post Roe v Wade, has only permitted Catholic Democrats to remain Democrats, resulting in their giving the Democratic Party the electoral power to keep abortion legal. And now, they are the pro-gay marriage, and anti-God party based on their voice vote 2014.
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Posted by: unum -
Jun. 26, 2015 6:19 PM ET USA
Bishop Wenski is asking the Congress to “oppose legislation and appropriations riders designed to reverse efforts to implement a national standard to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants.” The bishop obviously has little regard for the will of the people to determine civil law or the welfare of low income families who will bear the high cost of such meeting such standards. It is an unusual position for a successor to the apostles.
