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Faith Groups Divest From Fossil Fuels
2014-08-21 02:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hispanic Business: Worried about global warming, a growing number of churches and other faith groups are divesting their holdings in fossil fuel companies that release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. "The warning in scripture that 'the wages of sin is death' could not be more literally true than it is in the case of fossil fuels," said Serene Jones, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary, whose board voted earlier this summer to divest its $108.4 million...
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