The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction site.
Environment
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Amid devastating wildfires, Tennessee bishop calls for aid and prayers
“The Catholic community of east Tennessee continues to pray for those who have been affected by the terrible wildfires in Gatlinburg and other communities across the region,” Bishop Richard F. Stika said.
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Pope Francis to scientists: You must find solutions to climate change
The pope said there was a “weak response” in most international policies to promoting the common good.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Climate Accord Begins
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change went into effect on Nov. 4, a landmark deal to tackle global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming warmer even faster than scientists expected.
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Pope Francis: Protecting the planet is an ethical, moral obligation
Pope Francis praised the 100 countries that joined the Paris climate agreement but emphasized that implementing it must involve multidisciplinary cooperation and special measures of solidarity with the poor.
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Obama offers a welcome opportunity for de-escalation in Dakota pipeline stand-off
Americans might be forgiven if they thought they had put the great pipeline wars behind them with the abandonment of the giant Keystone XL.
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As Mass Extinction Threatens, Are Catholics Listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”
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Typhoon Haima hammers Philippines
Heavy damage was reported to homes and farmland in the northern Philippines on Oct. 20 after the strongest storm in three years struck overnight. Typhoon Haima barreled into northern Cagayan and Isabella provinces, ripping the roofs off homes and flattening crops. By late Oct. 21, 13 people had been
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Renewable energy: Ready for primetime?
The construction of an oil pipeline under a river that supplies drinking water to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has created a 19th-century-style showdown over territorial lands and treaty rights.
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Religion, ecology and our planetary future
No religious community can exempt itself from responsibility for the earth.