EVANGELICALS LOBBY CONSERVATIVE SENATORS TO SUPPORT CLIMATE CAPS

Evangelical leaders who unveiled a statement this week calling for mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions controls are lobbying Republican senators, who have so far opposed the controls, to now embrace legislation that would impose economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions limits in a cap-and-trade program. The new statement could allow environmentalists and Democrats to point to the involvement of religious conservatives as further evidence that momentum is growing on all sides to require industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and therefore global...