{"id":47189,"date":"2014-12-03T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_evangelicals_add_support_for_epa_plan_to_cut_coal_pollution\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:52:25","slug":"rns_evangelicals_add_support_for_epa_plan_to_cut_coal_pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47189","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Evangelicals add support for EPA plan to cut coal pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals are teaming up with environmentalists to support the Obama administration\u2019s Clean Power Plan to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Mitchell Hescox, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, submitted comments from more than 100,000 \u201cpro-life Christians\u201d\u009d who he said are concerned about children\u2019s health problems that are linked to unclean air and water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom acid rain to mercury to carbon, the coal utility industry has never acted as a good neighbor and cleaned up their mess on their own,\u201d\u009d Hescox told reporters on Monday (Dec. 1). \u201cInstead of acting for the benefit of our children\u2019s lives, they\u2019ve internalized their profits while our kids (have) borne the cost in their brains, lungs and lives.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/02\/evangelicals-add-support-epa-plan-cut-coal-pollution\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals are teaming up with environmentalists to support the Obama administration\u2019s Clean Power Plan to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants. The Rev. Mitchell Hescox, president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, submitted comments from more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47189\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,101,140,168,419,114,154,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}