Clergy Sign On

Dear President Biden and EPA Administrator Regan, As faith leaders from many diverse religious and spiritual traditions, we believe that humanity shares a responsibility to be stewards of Creation. All of us must work together to reduce pollution and implement just and equitable solutions to the climate crisis, and our national leaders have a sacred role in helping to achieve these goals. Therefore, we are united in our call for continuing to reduce vehicle emissions. As the United States builds a clean energy economy, we must focus on the sector that now generates the largest percentage of climate pollution: transportation. The clean car standards are the most effective policy currently available to contribute to climate solutions. In 2012, auto companies, federal agencies, and the state of California agreed to a long overdue new set of clean car standards to boost vehicles’ fuel efficiency and reduce carbon pollution from tailpipes. Implementing these standards was a critical step in our moral obligation to address the climate crisis. However, this significant step forward was rolled back under the previous administration. Now, we are calling on the Biden Administration to move forward with stronger national clean car standards. The climate crisis is a challenge of racial, economic, and generational justice, and we call on the Biden administration to meet it with an eye towards the most vulnerable in our communities. Choosing to make less efficient vehicles isn’t just wasteful—it is a moral travesty. Children, our elders, low wealth and Black and Brown communities are all suffering disproportionately due to increased pollution and climate-fueled disasters. As religious leaders, we urge you to enact the strongest possible standards to reduce vehicle pollution. We ask that you: ● Restore national standards and revise them beyond levels set during the Obama-Biden administration; ● Establish a 2030 standard for cars and light-duty trucks that achieves fleet average greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent or more below today’s average; ● Put the nation on a trajectory to make all new cars and light-duty trucks zero-emission vehicles no later than 2035; ● Ensure all new trucks and buses are zero-emission no later than 2040. We urge you to consider this moral opportunity and enact bold new standards that truly envision the best for our communities, our nation, and our world. Signed: Rev. Susan Hendershot President, Interfaith Power & Light Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll Sr. Founder of Green The Church and Senior Pastor of The Church by The Side of the Road Avery Davis Lamb co-Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries Karyn Bigelow co-Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries The Rev. Nathan Empsall Executive Director, Faithful America Marianne Comfort Justice coordinator for Earth, anti-racism and women, Sisters of Mercy Faith Leaders organized by state: AK Rev. Ellen Johnson-Price AK Mary Alice McKeen AK Reverend April B Hall Alaska Interfaith Power & Light AL Program and Policy AL Rev. Michael Malcom AL Dr. Richard Nisbett Director Kyle Crider Alabama Alabama Interfaith Power & Interfaith Power & Light Light, People's Justice Council AL Rev. Keith Williams St. AL Sr. Mr. Leroy Jones AL Rev. Dr. Paula Jones Mark Missionary Baptist Center on Conscience & War Church AL Rev. Ken Cumbie AL Rev. Richard Krause AR Reverend Steve Evans Bethany Congregational Church, UCC AR Rev. David Franks AZ Rev. Doug Bland Arizona AZ Rabbi Helen Cohn Interfaith Power & Light AZ Director of Justice & AZ Rev. Jan Olav Flaaten Faith AZ Rev. Rock Fremont Jr. Outreach Billie Fidlin Desert Lutheran Church, Phoenix Shepherd of the hills UCC Southwest Conference United Methodist Church AZ DSW Conference Social AZ Rev. Kenneth Heintzelman AZ The Rev. Elice Action Coord. Maria Hase Shadow Rock United Church Higginbotham United Church Dayspring United Methodist of Christ of Christ Church AZ Rev. Dr. Robert Howard AZ Rev Jayne Hubbard Black AZ Rev. Canon Pam Hyde Community Christian Church Mountain UCC Episcopal Diocese of Arizona (Disciples of Christ), Tempe AZ Reverend Sandy Johnson AZ The Rev. Steve Keplinger AZ Rev. Kate Lehman Santa Cruz Valley UMC Grace St. Paul's Episcopal St. Teresa of Avila Ecumenical Church Catholic Community AZ Rev. Lisa AZ Zone Young Men's Leader AZ Rev. Carol Reynolds McDaniel-Hutchings Unitarian Sid Paralkar Soka Gakkai Scottsdale Congregational UCC Universalist Church of Tucson International AZ Rev. Sue Ringler Tempe AZ Rabbi Susan Schanerman AZ Rabbi Dean Shapiro Interfaith Fellowship, Congregation NefeshSoul Ecumenical Catholic Communion AZ Pastor Sarah Stadler Grace AZ Rev. Kathalin Walker AZ Rev. Dr. John Brangenberg Lutheran Church/ELCA Shawnee Park CRC AZ The Rev. Dr. Richard AZ Rev. Christiane Heyde AZ Sister Jean Ryan SBS Deaver Mallory Redeemer Episcopal Church AZ Rev Hodgson Deanne First AZ Rev Ms Elizabeth Enright AZ Rev. Susan Presbyterian Church Bayboro Development Anderson-Smith Center AZ Pastor Rev. Mark Perry CA Rev Charles Alger Santa CA Rev. Dr. Eileen Altman Barbara UCC CA Rabbi Melanie Aron CA The Rev'd Dr Jay Atkinson CA Rev. Dr. MaAn Barcelo Congregation Shir Hadash Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association CA Clerk Doug Barnett Los CA Rev. Levanah S Bdolak CA Rev. Canon Sally Bingham Angeles Monthly Meeting Grace Episcopal Cathedral (Quaker) CA Sr. Mary. 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