Living the Golden Rule Kit Now Available

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Plan ahead for Earth Day: The 2023 Faith Climate Action Week printed organizer’s kit is now available! The resources in this kit will equip you to lead faith-based discussion and action at your congregation to ensure a safe climate for our neighbors and communities.

Get your kit!

Faith Climate Action Week is Interfaith Power & Light’s annual program of climate-themed worship services and sermons that spans ten days of activities around Earth Day, with this year’s dates being April 14 – 23, 2023. Join the community of people of faith preaching, teaching, and acting to heal the climate in 2023!

The theme of 2023’s Faith Climate Action Week is “Living the Golden Rule: Just Transition to a clean energy economy.” We’ll examine our responsibility to transition to energy sources that safeguard our common home and how our faiths call us to respond with just solutions for all.

Click here to purchase your printed organizer’s kit for only $26.

The value-packed kit includes an Action Guide with information on the faithful call to care for our neighbors by ensuring a just transition to a clean energy economy, where the well-being of workers and frontline community members are prioritized.

In the kit, there are short film suggestions, an updated climate change fact sheet, faith-based discussion materials, including a colorful multi-faith Golden Rule poster, and suggestions and resources for how to engage in supporting local action.

Faith Climate Action Week 2023 online offerings include resources for sermons, talks, worship services, a film screening kit for the 2023 featured film, and more.

Click here to purchase your printed 2023 Faith Climate Action Week kit today.

EPA’s Supplemental Methane Hearing starts Today

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Take Action, Cut Methane

In November, President Biden issued an updated draft rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from new and existing oil and gas operations. The updated rule builds on the draft rule released by EPA in 2021, incorporates much of the feedback offered by communities in the past year, and is an important step towards addressing the climate crisis, safeguarding public health, and creating new jobs in the methane mitigation industry.

Still, there is more work to be done to ensure that the strongest possible methane safeguards are quickly finalized. EPA is hosting three virtual public hearings on January 10-12, 2023 from 10 AM–8 PM Eastern. These hearings are an important opportunity for communities across the country to make their voices heard, and demand that EPA adopts strong, comprehensive methane safeguards to protect our health and our planet.
Please use the guidance below to encourage folks to tune into the hearings this week, and highlight testimony offered by folks from across the country.

Pre-Hearing Guidance

Tomorrow: At virtual public hearings hosted by @EPA, people from across the country call for the strongest #CutMethane safeguards possible & hold polluters accountable! Our health, safety, & futures are on the line. Watch live at TIME/ZONE → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9R9AAZkAo

Livestream Guidance

WATCH: At virtual public hearings hosted by @EPA [STATERS] are calling for the strongest safeguards possible to #CutMethane from the oil & gas industry. Tune in to learn more about how we can protect #PublicHealth & tackle the #ClimateCrisis → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9R9AAZkAo
LIVE: Folks from across the country call on @EPA to finalize the strongest #CutMethane safeguards possible & hold polluters accountable! Our health, safety, & futures are on the line. Tune in here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9R9AAZkAo

Comment Period Pivot Guidance

Can’t join the virtual public hearings on @EPA’s new proposal to #CutMethane? Don’t worry – you can still make your voice heard by submitting a comment urging @EPA to finalize the strongest safeguards possible NOW! Deadline Feb 13: https://cutmethane.org/take-action/
Did you miss your opportunity to speak at @EPA’s virtual public hearings on the #CutMethane rulemaking? There is still time to make your voice heard by submitting a public comment calling for the strongest safeguards possible. Deadline Feb 13: https://cutmethane.org/take-action/

Learn How You Can Champion the Environment During the 2023 Legislative Session

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You are invited to a preview of the New Mexico State legislative session, which begins on Jan. 17.  Learn how you can engage on concerns of climate, economic transition, health and climate, oil and gas reform, Green Amendment, water, and other issues.

Please click here

to register for this Zoom event on Jan. 17, 2023 at 5:30 p.m..
After you register, you will receive a Zoom link.
Co-sponsored by New Mexico El Paso Interfaith Power & Light and Citizens Caring for the Future.