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As people of faith, we recognize our place as a part of creation with a responsibility to care for it.

Among the only faith-based groups in the state that focuses on climate change, Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light in Knoxville has a single part-time paid worker, Dan Joranko. He's pushing congregations to apply for the Cool Congregations Challenge -- an effort to encourage religious groups to be "sustainable role models in response to climate change."

More than 600 faith leaders are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to accelerate its next round of pollution reduction standards ...

Local elected officials are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt all permitting for future oil and gas projects, in light of recent progress with offshore wind. The feds are getting ready to hold a lease auction in August or September for sites off Morro Bay to build floating wind turbines. ...

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) announced it will soon accept public comments on drafting rules to regulate underground carbon-dioxide pipelines. The emerging technology is touted as a climate change solution, but environmental groups are skeptical. The PUC recently declared it has regulatory authority over such pipelines, after it was initially believed only county governments in Minnesota had a say. ...