Blog - Young Evangelicals for Climate Action

Jul 20, 2017

Our Comment to the EPA on Halting Methane Standards

Posted by Tori Goebel

During the campaign, then-candidate Trump often spoke dismissively and skeptically about the reality of climate change and the dangers that it poses to the health and safety of American citizens and our global neighbors alike. Since coming to power, the President has translated this rhetorical resistance into concrete policy, appointing a climate dismissive to head the EPA, announcing his intention to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, and reversing countless environmental rules meant to steward the earth and to fight the advance of warming global temperatures.

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Jun 19, 2017

Climate Action in the Congo

Posted by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap

Congolese Climate Leadership Fellows Plan Green Campus, Creation Care Week Events

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Jun 01, 2017

Young Evangelicals on Paris Withdrawal: “A Moral Travesty”

Posted by Tori Goebel

Today, President Trump announced his intent to start the process of withdrawing the United States from official party status to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Once the process is finalized in 2020, the United States will join only Syria and Nicaragua as the lone countries not party to the agreement. The agreement, which entered into force on November 4, 2016, has been signed by 195 countries and ratified by 147. China, India, the E.U., and dozens of other countries have reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement in recent weeks.

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May 05, 2017

Y.E.C.A. Marches and Lobbies for Climate Action on Capitol Hill

Posted by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap

The stifling humidity and record-setting temperatures were no match for over 200,000 moms, students, scientists, front-line community members, and other activists on April 29. The People’s Climate March 2017 drew hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens out into the streets for 370 separate marches across the country. Y.E.C.A. had members at several of these marches, but its largest presence was in the streets of the capital, where dozens of Y.E.C.A. members from all across the country marched for faithful climate action.

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Mar 28, 2017

Trump Executive Order on Climate Reflects Concern for Interests of Energy Elites Over Vulnerable People

Posted by Tori Goebel

YECA responds to the executive order on climate.

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Mar 24, 2017

Aaron Iverson | March "Neighbor Award" Winner

Posted by Sam Schmidt

Aaron Iverson is currently a post-doc researcher at Cornell University focused on agroecology and maximizing ecosystem services through agricultural landscapes.

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Mar 17, 2017