What's New Archive
2012 was the year of Ethics of Energy. Click here to learn more.
Read the series of vision and study papers on Christian Understanding by clicking here.
Download a new fact sheet on faith and environmental justice entitled Unequal Exposures: Toxic Chemicals in Communities of Color
“Protecting a Piece of Heaven“ Read an editorial from one pastor on how God’s Creation and our energy choices are interlinked.
Churches chastise FDA decision not to ban toxic BPA from food and infant formula cans. Read the statement.
Religious women call on Congress to protect women, children and other vulnerable communities from toxic chemicals. See the press release and statement.
Chesapeake Covenant Community works with Washington DC metro community to start a Watershed Stewards Academy designed specifically for the faith community. Click here to learn more
Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee organizes concert to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. Click here for the story.
Thirty faith-based organizations call for chemical policy reform to protect vulnerable people and God's Creation. Read the letter.
Nearly 3,000 people of faith endorse a faithful vision for chemical policy reform. Read the statements and view the signatories to the Interfaith Statement for Chemical Policy Reform and the Christian Principles for a Healthy Body an Spirit. We give heartfelt thanks to all of you who endorsed these statements.
NCC offers liturgical resources and study guide to aid churches' reflections on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. The study guide accompanies the new documentary film "Dirty Business." NCC is offering free copies of the DVD to the 15 churches or study groups with the best plans for hosting public viewings. Email nate@nccecojustice.org to submit your plan by May 27.
Caring for Creation Conference- The United Methodist Church's Southeastern Jurisdiction hosted its 6th annual conference March 31st-April 3rd on stunning Lake Junaluska, NC. Workshops and speakers included Chloe Schwabe, NCC Environmental Health program manager, Rev. Michael McClain, NCC Climate and Energy regional field coordinator Rev. Sally Bingham, Interfaith Power and Light founder, and the UMC's John Hill, director of Environmental and Economic Justice.
Ecumenical Advocacy Days March 25-28, 2011 in Washington, DC. For the 10th year in a row, over 700 people and over 45 organizations from the ecumenical Christian community will worship, reflect, learn, and witness to legislators together.
Churches Submit Testimony at February Senate Toxics Hearing. Click here for a copy of the statement.
Book reading and signing by NCC Climate Leader and Author of Natural Saints Mallory Duff at St. John United Lutheran Church Earth Ministry in Seattle, Washington Thursday, Feb. 3rd.
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon hosts Earth Care Summit January 31, 2011.
Orthodox Church affirmed sanctity of Alaska's waters January 18-20, 2011 with blessing of the waters. Click here to see the story and click here to see a Letter to the Editor by Fr. Michael J. Oleska, PhD.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson invites the National Council of Churches to continue "Running the Race" together for Eco-Justice. Read a reflection on her remarks here.
New page on toy safety in time for Christmas here.
NCC applauds Canada's decision to list chemical in baby bottles (BPA) as toxic.
Interfaith leaders call for a moral response to the oil spill. Click here to read an op-ed published in the Orlando sentinel.
Pray for our Neighbors in the Gulf Coast. Click here for prayer and liturgical resources for congregations to facilitate a prayerful response to the Gulf oil disaster from the United Methodist Chruch, the Episcopal church and more.
NCC applauds new Presidential Cancer Panel report linking chemical exposure with some forms of cancer. Read the statement and press release here.
Find out about the international climate negotiations process, read various perspecitives on the Copenhagen Accord, and lean more about what needs to happen in Mexico City. Click Here.
Each year the National Park Service sets up “free park days” when entrance fees to all national parks are waived. The last free admission day for 2010 will be November 11. Click here to learn more and read a reflection from Tyler Edgar of the NCC Eco-justice staff.
Interfaith leaders call for a moral response to the oil spill. Click here to read an op-ed published in the Orlando sentinel.
NCC, the Union for Reform Judaism, and interfaith groups call for urgent chemical policy reform. Organizations and individuals invited to read and endorse the Interfaith Statement for Chemical Policy Reform here.