The ban’s proponents say mining practices posed a grave risk to the country’s already limited water supply.
Environment
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Vatican and U.S. church leaders urge Trump to reconsider environmental rollback
One of the pope’s senior advisers urged Mr. Trump to listen to “dissenting” voices when it comes to the environment.
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Why is climate change a moral issue?
From 2017: Policies that fail to protect our planet are not only against Catholic teaching but are also immoral.
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Three reasons why caring for the environment is a moral issue
Here’s what Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching have to say about climate change.
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Trump’s climate policy “neither protects our common home nor promotes the common good,” Catholic leaders say
Reversing any effort that reduces greenhouse gas pollution endangers the planet and puts the world’s most vulnerable people at risk, the advocates said.
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Will President Trump rescind this national monument’s status from Native Americans?
A tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.
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How can the church help the victims of climate displacement?
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations across the world, in places that are the least able to adapt.
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Pope Francis warns of a ‘major world war for water’
Addressing 90 experts from many countries, Francis said that “all people have a right to safe drinking water.”
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Jesuits call Dakota pipeline work ‘morally unacceptable’
The Jesuits invite people of good will and members of Congress to call on the administration to reverse its decision the Dakota access pipeline.
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Pope Francis to activists: Stand with migrants, do not deny climate science, there is no such thing as ‘Islamic terrorism’
“The grave danger,” Pope Francis writes, “is to disown our neighbors. When we do so, we deny their humanity and our own humanity…and we deny the most important Commandments of Jesus.”