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Infrastructure has been in the news this week, and people of faith have been at the forefront.
On Thursday, a rally in Washington, D.C., which sought to bring together 100 faith leaders in support of.
To restore nature, we must first restore ourselves, Pope Francis said June 4 in a message at the opening of a decadelong United Nations effort aimed at reviving the world's threatened ecosystems.
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This week, NCR environment correspondent Brian Roewe reported on activist shareholders who on a single day in late May sent a strong message to major oil companies: They won three seats on ExxonMobil s board of directors and gave majority support to a resolution requiring Chevron Corporation to increase its greenhouse gas emission cuts. On the same day, a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to bring its emissions into line with global targets under the Paris Agreement.
Remember those early months of the pandemic, when it seemed that the human environmental footprint was shrinking? Air pollution eased as lockdowns took vehicles off the roads, and wild animals ambled .