How will climate policy look under the incoming administration? CRS’s Bill O’Keefe recently spoke with Our Sunday News about some of Catholic Relief Services’s plans on navigating the next four years. The President-elect reiterated his call for some companies that make investments in the U.S. economy to bypass some environmental regulations. That proposal is one of several that Catholic policy experts are concerned about when it comes to how the second Trump administration may approach environmental policy.
Bill O’Keefe stated, “We’re going to be watching very closely, both looking for ways to to partner with the new administration,” as well as pushing them on key environmental goals, “and we invite Catholics to join us.” Anna Johnson, the North America senior programs manager for the Laudato Si Movement, stated, “The Catholic Church and Catholics are an incredibly important voice in this space, and through being Catholic, we understand that this call to care for our common home is deeply a faith-filled one, and so we shouldn’t be divided on this through political boundaries.”
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