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Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Slams Climate Action as ‘Religion’ [1]

"When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a plan to roll back environmental protections, American faith leaders and scholars reacted with confusion, sadness and anger."  "Jewish and Christian faith leaders responded to Lee Zeldin’s comments with “righteous anger” and called for policies that support a more just, livable world."

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Science [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
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National (U.S.) [15]
Source: Inside Climate News [16], 04/01/2025

Faith Groups Mobilize To Keep Fighting Climate Change As Trump Exits Paris [17]

"Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of fulfilling the U.S. pledge in the Paris Agreement. "

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People & Population [10]
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Source: Yale Climate Connections [18], 02/18/2025

Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as Wyoming Seeks To Send it Outside [19]

"The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water landscape."

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Religion, Faith and Spirituality [11]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Source: Inside Climate News [24], 02/04/2025

New Zealand Mountain Granted Personhood, Recognizing It As Sacred For Māori [25]

"A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being."

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Religion, Faith and Spirituality [11]
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Australia & Oceania [26]
Source: AP [27], 01/31/2025

Telling the Stories of the Silent Sentinels [28]

To many, plants are a merely green backdrop, indistinguishable and inconsequential. But, freelancer Karen Mockler says that such “plant blindness” belies an urgent need for our notice. More than a third of the world’s trees and thousands of other plant species face extinction. Their plight — and their many blessings — offer perceptive journalists a wealth of reporting and storytelling opportunities. Mockler on why to write about plants.

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Government [20]
Health [36]
Journalism & Media [37]
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Pollution [38]
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"Trump Wants to Rename Denali. Alaska Lawmakers Don’t." [45]

"President Donald J. Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, has run into opposition from Alaska lawmakers."

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National (U.S.) [15]
Alaska and Hawaii [46]
Source: NYTimes [47], 01/23/2025

"Tohono O’odham Nation Signs Co-Stewardship With BLM Over Sacred Lands" [48]

"The Tohono O’odham Nation signed a co-stewardship agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for federal lands with deep cultural and religious ties for the tribal nation."

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Source: States Newsroom [49], 01/23/2025

"Biden To Create Two National Monuments In California Honoring Tribes" [50]

"President Joe Biden plans to create two new national monuments in California in the coming days, according to two people briefed on the announcement, aiming to cement his environmental legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office."

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Source: Washington Post [51], 01/03/2025

"Trump Vows To Rename Denali As Mount Mckinley" [52]

"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901."

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Source: Reuters [53], 12/23/2024

More Than 3,100 Students Died At Indian Boarding Schools [54]

"The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools."

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Source: Washington Post [55], 12/23/2024

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