Pro-life means supporting the environment
We are pro-life Christians and believe in the holy Scriptures. This includes God’s call to care for creation and the least of these. This extends to climate change and protecting our children from harmful oil and gasoline air pollution. (Quaker investors urge EPA “strong methane emissions rules,” Dec. 20, 20).
Climate-harming methane from oil and gas infrastructure is affecting citizens and communities throughout the commonwealth. These extreme weather events, which include flooding and superstorms as well as droughts and raging wildfires at night, are a result of hyper-warming greenhouse gas emission.
The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a rule to reduce these emissions. However, the rule must be strengthened to include the smaller, more susceptible wells that are a significant part of the problem, especially Pennsylvania.
There are solutions to this existential crisis. We need people of faith to support the EPA, and to demand maximum protections from its methane polluting rule.
Kim Anderson,Ebensburg
