Prelate welcomes announcement of new carbon standards
August 04, 2015
The chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed President Barack Obama's announcement of new carbon dioxide emission limits on the nation's power plants.
"A new national standard to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants is an important step forward to protect the health of all people, especially children, the elderly, and poor and vulnerable communities, from harmful pollution and the impacts of climate change," said Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami.
"The bishops welcome this important move by the administration to adopt long-awaited standards to mitigate climate change and safeguard public health, which are significant ways to live out our responsibility to care for God’s creation," he added.
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Further information:
- Archbishop Wenski Welcomes New Carbon Pollution Standards, Citing Need To 'Care For God's Creation' (USCCB)
- Don’t hinder development of pollution standard, USCCB committee chair tells Congress (CWN, 6/26)
- Obama's power plant climate plan shifts to courts, states (AP)
- Climate change and President Obama's action plan (White House)
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Posted by: brenda22890 -
Aug. 05, 2015 11:39 AM ET USA
Would Wenski like to pay my electric bill?
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Posted by: FredC -
Aug. 05, 2015 11:29 AM ET USA
When we burn coal we are re-injecting into our environment the carbon that was removed when the coal was formed. Aren't we simply putting the environment back the way it was before the trees fossilized?
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Posted by: skall391825 -
Aug. 04, 2015 9:41 PM ET USA
Who cares what they say. The Church I grew up with is largely gone; just pockets remain. I was hoping that Catholics would have by now revolted--made a mess. But some are cowed by clericalism, some just hope things get better, and most don't even know or care what has been lost--they were never taught that the Church is more than a community institution to teach folks how to be nice to each other and to help the poor.
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Posted by: james-w-anderson8230 -
Aug. 04, 2015 6:26 PM ET USA
This is a continuing example of the Hierarchy of the church dabbling in areas outside of their ecclesiastical competence. Calling carbon dioxide a pollutant is like calling oxygen a pollutant. Plants need carbon dioxide to live and grow just as we need oxygen to live and grow.
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Posted by: TheJournalist64 -
Aug. 04, 2015 6:00 PM ET USA
There are four questions in the science: is earth warming? is that bad? did humans cause it? can we do anything about it? To get to the Obama position, one has to answer all questions "yes." That's not science; that's religious faith in a political statement. The Abp is making a mistake to think this is a justice issue before the science and economics are really settled.
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Posted by: Louise01 -
Aug. 04, 2015 5:55 PM ET USA
What are the Archbishop's credentials in science
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Posted by: 1Jn416 -
Aug. 04, 2015 8:30 AM ET USA
It troubles me to see a bishop adopting this linguistically manipulative term, "carbon pollution." There is no such thing. All of us emit carbon dioxide when exhaling, and this is not "pollution." Nor is it pollution when a power plant or a car emits carbon dioxide. The correct term is carbon dioxide emissions, not carbon pollution.
