Legislative Victory on Offshore Wind – Next Steps
Last week, the Energy & Technology Committee passed two bills that would strengthen CT’s commitment to offshore wind. Please take action today to keep the bill moving forward!
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Take Action to Ban Plastic Bags in CT
SB 1003- An Act Concerning Single-Use Plastic and Paper Bags has received a public hearing and now must be voted out of committee before the 3/29 deadline. There is an Environment committee meeting scheduled for this Monday, but the agenda has not been posted yet. We need everyone to contact the Environment Committee leadership and urge them to vote this bill out of committee as soon as possible!
IREJN Earth Films
Showing an environmental film is a great way to educate your community. To assist you in your work to build an environmental ministry, IREJN has complied a list of recommended environmental films for your religious community to screen at your house of worship.
The Time is Now: The Theological Basis for Saving the Planet
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
Latest Activity to Ban Fracking Waste In CT
IREJN continues to collaborate with Food & Water Watch on banning fracking waste in CT. Congratulations to the residents of Rocky Hill, which became the thirty-third town to ban fracking waste. Click here to read about the efforts in thirteen more towns to ban this toxic, radioactive waste.
Local Fracking Waste Ban Efforts Continue
Concerned citizens across CT continue to move local ordinances forward, protecting their corner of Creation, property values and public health. 20 CT towns and cities now have local laws banning toxic, radioactive fracking waste and other oil and gas drilling and extraction wastes.
IREJN’s Response to Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord
Please read IREJN’s Official Response to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.
Announcing the IREJN Earthkeeper’s Fund
For over 15 years, IREJN has striven to fulfill its mission of empowering religious communities in Connecticut to be faithful
Marching in the People’s Climate March
by Rev. Tom Carr One week after tens of thousands of people took part in the March for Science in
Stand With Standing Rock
The largest gathering of indigenous nations in modern history have come by the hundreds to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will run close to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, compromising drinking water and disrupting sacred burial sites. Please join us for a protest in New Haven on Thursday, October 20 at 4:30 at Wells Fargo, 205 Church Street, New Haven and stand with Standing Rock!
