Evangelicals Lobby GOP Senators To Support Mandatory Climate Caps

Evangelical leaders who Feb. 8 unveiled a statement calling for mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions controls are lobbying Republican senators who have so far opposed the controls, in a push to win their support for legislation that would impose economy-wide emissions limits in a cap-and-trade program. At a press conference in Washington DC, more than 85 religious leaders who have formed the Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI) unveiled a document called Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action , which they...