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Rekindling the Moral Call to Action on Climate Change

FCNL is gathering support for a congressional resolution that acknowledges the myriad threats posed by human-caused climate change and calls on Congress to take action. This resolution provides a way for you to engage with congressional offices and with congessional candidates in this election year around the question of what to do about this grave problem.

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Congress & Oil

Big Oil Money

Human civilization is dependent upon the adoption of clean, renewable energy resources, and the re-allocation of federal fossil fuel money would be a great place to start. Currently, more than $113 billion in federal subsidies would go to oil, coal and gas industries in the coming decade.

The Keystone XL Story

By Their Own Admission

The Keystone XL pipeline will endanger America's agricultural heartland and the the Ogallala Aquifer, "America's Well." The pipeline project will provide only twenty full time jobs and because most of the tar sands oil is planned for export, the price of oil in America's Midwest will rise.

News and Resources

There's Plenty of Money!

Learn about the various forms of subsidies and loopholes that are shaping our energy economy, and what that money could be doing instead in Annie Leonard's video, The Story of Broke.

EPA Success!

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson calls the first-ever Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plant emissions a "great victory for public health, especially the health of our children."

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Quaker Meeting Statements on Climate Change

Monthly and yearly meetings across the country are beginning to voice their concern over climate change. FCNL has begun collecting statements and minutes from monthly and yearly meetings who wish to speak out on the issue. These statements send a powerful message that people of faith support government action to address climate change, and ensure a healthy planet for generations to come. If your meeting would like to submit a statement please contact FCNL.

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FCNL Statement of Legislative Policy

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." "We believe that humankind must respect the ecological integrity and the sacredness of the natural world. People must choose activities, create institutions, and establish policies and laws that are beneficial to the earth and will help protect and regenerate its ecosystems."
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