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Bishops say carbon tax is an 'eminently doable' climate solution


According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 60.3% of U.S. electricity is generated from fossil fuels, with coal being 19.3% Nuclear energy accounts for 19.7% and renewable sources wind, hydropower, solar and biomass 19.8%. Image: coal-fired power plant (Pixabay/Peter H.)
Catholic support for a price on carbon dioxide emissions was on display during a weekend climate change conference, where two bishops, an environmental leader and former Vatican ambassador touted it as a critical climate solution that is both effective and eminently doable.
Bishops John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, and Robert McElroy of San Diego both backed the idea of a carbon tax on coal, oil and gas companies, which would be redistributed to Americans in the form of a dividend. ....

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The Push To Preserve Greater Cincinnati's Black History Through Architecture


St. Mark Church in Evanston.
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Marye Ward, 60, has spent her whole life in Evanston. She can tell you about a time when the streets weren t bisected by I-71, about a community where everyone seemed to know everyone else, the shops that lined Montgomery Road and the bustling Catholic church called St. Mark that, for her and her family, was at the middle of it all.
Ward has never been Catholic, but attended school at St. Mark starting in third grade when her public elementary school ran out of room. She says the sense of warmth at the church s masses and community events made a huge impression on her; as a grade-schooler, she aspired to be a nun, inspired by the sisters she met at St. Mark. ....

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