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Wildfires' smoke, ash chokes Northern Californians

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A day without cars in southwest China

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Pollution cloud over the Olympics

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Mccain, like Bush, calls for lifting US ban on coastal oil drilling

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Budapest searches for green solution

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Six Ways Coal Destroys Mountains

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Bishop Thomas Skrenes - EPA Great Lakes Challenge: "We are all environmentalists"

Bishop praises interfaith success of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

Marquette, Michigan - A Lutheran Bishop who has participated in interfaith Earth Day recycling projects for four years in a row said.
"Celebrate - what a great day Earth Day has been 2008," said Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). "The Earth Healing Initiative has been a great success this year."
"Congratulations Earth Healers - you've done it, it has been a success," Bishop Skrenes said. "The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge has been a great success."
"Computers have been recycled, pharmaceuticals have been brought together for proper disposal," Skrenes said. "Congratulations to those members of the faith communities and others who have been a part of this."
"We are all environmentalists," said Skrenes of Marquette, MI. "All of us want clean air to breathe, all of us want clean drinking water. We all enjoy the outdoors and nature."
"No matter our political understandings are, no matter where we are on the liberal and conservative line - no matter what we think of any of the big issues facing thee one of us - world today - all of us can agree that it is in all of our interests."
"We can all certainly conserve and save and bring back and then give to the next generation what has been given to us."
Bishop Skrenes said interfaith environment projects like the challenge ensure a better future for all humans.
"It is a sign of great significance that people can join hands and work together," Skrenes said.
Bishop Skrenes thanked the EPA, faith communities and "people of goodwill throughout the upper Midwest who have been a part of this work."
"Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency for their help and assistance in all of this work," Bishop Skrenes said. The EPA challenge "has been a part of the lives and will be a part of the future of this whole area."
"It is a wonderful opportunity to begin to look at what it is that we hold in common," Skrenes said. "What we hold in common is this wonderful Great Lakes basin."
"This is a wonderful place with lakes and streams and forests everywhere in the Midwest, and the great plains and the great fields," Skrenes said. "We have been a part of saving some of this and making a difference."
"Sometimes we become so focused on what divides us, what disconnects us, what separates us - and there are important things that sometimes do that - but yet we can all have loyalty and allegiance to this world that has been our home and this of the world that we have been blessed with by God."
"God has given us the privilege of living here in the midst of these lakes and all of this beautiful nature," Skrenes said.
"When people of faith, whether they be of Christian traditions or of other traditions, gather together to work on what connects us. One of those things that connects us is respect and awe for the creation that surrounds us."
"We are part of a movement together in these early years of the Twenty-first Century to save what has been given to us by the generations before us and what God has provided to us," Skrenes said.
Bishop Skrenes is one of nine faith leaders who signed the Earth Keeper Covenant in northern Michigan in 2004 that lead to many interfaith projects.
The Cedar Tree Institute co-founded the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that works closely with ten faith traditions on a wide range of environment projects that include college students, at-risk teens, American Indian tribes and others.
The EHI is developing the same relationship with faith communities across the Great lakes.
The faith communities include Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Jewish, the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers) and Zen Buddhist.
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Lutheran Bishop Thomas Skrenes praises interfaith work: EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

An Earth Healing message, thank you and congratulations from Lutheran Bishop Thomas... more

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Don't Be A 'GasHole'

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Coal plant pollution threatens US parks: report

US regulators are proposing to weaken air quality laws, which would allow new coal-fired power plants to pollute US parks from Shenandoah in Virginia to the Great Basin in Nevada, a new report said on Thursday.

Amid rising power demand and flat US natural gas output, electricity generators are seeking to build power plants fired by abundant coal.
The fuel is cheap compared with other fossil fuels, but emits more pollutants, such as mercury and smog components sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

"President George Bush's administration is responding to this growing threat to our national parks by seeking to weaken and rewrite the laws that protect national park air quality," Mark Wexler, the clean air director for the National Parks Conservation Association, a Washington-based advocacy group, said by telephone.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed refinements in so-called New Source Review rules that would change the way air pollution is calculated, allowing manipulation by industries seeking pollution permits, the NPCA said.

The changes would enable electricity generators, for example, to hide pollution spikes on hot days when their units typically run hardest.

Complaints that the revisions would harm park air quality have been underscored by US Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, who wrote to the EPA this year urging Administrator Stephen Johnson to abandon the proposed rule change.

The EPA did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the report. In the past, it has said that the rules would provide greater regulatory certainty.

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National Parks Conservation Association Report: Dark Horizons

http://www.npca.org/darkhorizons/

We then have no moral highground to take in chiding China or any other country about coal when we can't even get our own act together. 110 new plants proposed with a climate bill due to be debated in the Senate next month that actually allows for them to keep polluting. Where are we going with this?

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