Taking Care of God's Creation.

CONVERSATION; ENVIRONMENTAL justice; GOD; ENVIRONMENTALISM

An upbeat, smart, powerhouse - that was my first impression of Heather McTeer Toney as I watched her onstage taking on a former Trump administration EPA official on the issue of climate change at the Society of Environmental Journalists' conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this past October. As a former EPA administrator, how hard do you think it's going to be for the agency to bounce back post-Trump? For example, when it came to the [Trump administration's proposed] rollback of the [federal] mercury and air toxic standards, which we really fought hard to get, we were able to connect with the evangelical community because they were very supportive of protecting unborn children. So, white organizations, or majority organizations, and majority donors who have not typically engaged or worked with some of the minority communities are now having to do that and they should. [Extracted from the article]

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