Caring for God's Creation is an inherent part of religious life. From mountaintops to forests, green pastures to still waters, stars in the sky to lilies of the field, we experience the gift of Creation. With God's Earth experiencing environmental problems, many religious Americans are seeking to respond through their faith.
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The National Religious Partnership for the Environment brings together a diverse alliance of faith institutions and leaders in order to bring voice and action on behalf of caring for God's Creation. NRPE offers resources and accounts of how people of faith are acting upon God's mandate to be stewards of God's Earth. NRPE also fosters the religious voice on environmental issues.

Faithful Pray for Clean Water

Senior religious leaders, clergy and lay leaders join together to pray that the Environmental Protection Agency protects clean water. More than 90 religious leaders submitted prayers to the EPA. Click here to see some of the prayers. In addition, faith organizations submitted a formal comment to the EPA urging the EPA to not rollback the Clean Water Rule. Click here to view the letter.

Religious Groups Oppose Mercury Rollback

Religious groups opposed the rollback of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, issued by the EPA. 

• Faith leaders showed up April 17 in front of the EPA headquarters to pray for children to be protected from mercury pollution.
• Representatives from the faith community testified during the EPA hearing on Monday, March 18, in DC. Click here to view testimony from the Evangelical Environmental Network, Creation Justice Ministries, and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. 
• Religious organizational formal comment letter submitted to EPA. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops also submitted a formal comment to EPA. More than 50 religious leaders sent at letter to EPA.
• Evangelical Environmental Network statement
• 21 faith group letter.

Faith Groups Urge Clean Car Standards

Faith groups responded to the Trump Administration's announcement that they would rollback Clean Car Standards. Click here to see the statements from Creation Justice Ministries and here for Franciscan Action Network statement. 

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