3. Common Good and Private Property: EJP seeks to support efforts that achieve a balance between the right to private property and a just use of property within a common good ethic. This is seen most concretely in our approach to various "takings" legislation before the Congress as well as through other land management issues. This framework has been useful to state Catholic conferences and dioceses when local state takings legislation arises.
4. Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development: EJP seeks to promote development which eradicates global poverty while preserving the ecological heritage of the earth. EJP continues to devote considerable attention to issues of debt relief and trade legislation as it effects the environment, as well as climate change.

See also the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Background and Position Paper on Environmental Justice, February 2003.