Clean Energy

Clean Energy is the path towards a healthier climate, cleaner air and a more just world. Religious communities have long spoken on the need for clean energy including the need to address power plant pollution. 

Faith Groups Respond to Clean Power Plan Rollback

Faith organizations issued a joint statement on the release of the Affordable Clean Energy rule.

On the heels of the Trump Administration's announcement of the Affordable Clean Energy rule, faith organizations issued statements against the rollback.

• Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology statement.
• Click here for the Friends Committee on National Legislation statement.
• Evangelical Environmental Network statement here 
• Catholic Climate Covenant statement here 
• Franciscan Action Network statement here 
• Columban Center statement here
• Young Evangelicals for Climate Action statement here 
• Christian Reformed Church statement here 
• ​Interfaith Power and Light statement
• Creation Justice Ministries statement
• Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology statement
• Leadership Conference of Womens Religions statement
• Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology statement

​National religious organizations and faith leaders have praised the Clean Power Plan:

• National Religious Partnership for the Environment
• Creation Justice Ministries
• US Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Interfaith Power and Light
• Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious
• Evangelical Environmental Network

In the News

• NRPE Partners speak out on Affordable Clean Energy rule. 
• Clean Power Plan Repeal/Replace comments (2018)
  • US Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation
  • Interfaith Power and Light comment and testimony
• Clean Power Plan Repeal statements (2017)
  • Christian Reformed Church
  • US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement
  • Evangelical Environmental Network's statement
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation statement​
• 15,000 Catholics including 125 Catholic leaders sign a petition in support of the Clean Power Plan.
• Faith organizations speak out on stay
• Multifaith coalition files amicus brief in support of Clean Power Plan (April 2016)
• Catholic coalition files amicus brief backing Clean Power Plan (April 2016)
• Religious community's statement on the Supreme Court's stay (February 2016)
• Jewish community's response to the Supreme Court's stay (February 2016)
• Faith leaders testify in support of the Clean Power Plan (July 2014)

Numerous groups have have issued statements regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule to regulate carbon pollution from existing power plants, including:

• US Conference of Catholic Bishops​
• Evangelical Environmental Network
• Maryknoll
• Jewish Council for Public Affairs
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Sojourners
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church
• Catholic Health Association of the United States
• United Church of Christ
• Interfaith Power and Light