Rooted in Justice, against the deregulation in Permitting Reform 

On behalf of Unitarian Universalists of faith and conscience, we oppose the version of Permitting Reform being advanced in Congress as S. 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) of 2026.

The Bill fails to align with our faith teachings and values that call us to hold in love our recognition of interdependence, our need for justice, and our commitment to equity.  We find the current proposal favors industry interests over the needs of people, communities, and ecosystems.  It perpetuates the structural injustices of environmental racism and strikes at the foundations of the environmental policies that keep our communities safe from corporations more concerned with profit than people and planet.  The bill sacrifices the sovereign rights and interests of Indigenous communities, as well as the preservation of sacred and cultural resources, at a time when the climate crisis is already forcing another generation of people from their homes.  BAAJA runs counter to decades of Unitarian Universalist Social Witness statements: instead, we say, "But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). 

BAAJA shifts away from permitting solutions that respect community needs, democracy, transparency, accountability, and environmental protections.  Instead, it functions as a deregulatory push that prioritizes shareholder interests while jeopardizing community agency and prioritizing corporate interests. It locks in fossil fuel use, in exchange for transmission expansion, at the cost of community health and the legal tools impacted communities use to hold industry accountable.  The trade-offs are too steep a price.

UUSJ joins other UU organizations, including State Action Networks, in opposing BAAJA on the basis of both its policy choices and our UU theology.

Monday, November 2
2:00 p.m. ET • 1:00 p.m. CT • noon MT • 11:00 a.m. PT • 10:00 a.m. AT • 8:00 a.m. HT
RSVP (via Zoom)

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supports the nutrition and health of pregnant and postpartum people, infants, and children up to age 5 during a pivotal time of development. Yet, too many eligible people are missing out on this program. During this webinar, WIC agency staff, a WIC participant, and state and federal advocates will share key information about WIC and strategies you can use to ensure it reaches more eligible people in your community. WIC Fact Sheet

Resistance from the Borderlands: Arizona Communities Stand Against the Wall

Wednesday, November 4
3:00 p.m. ET • 2:00 p.m. CT • 1:00 p.m. MT • 12:00 p.m. PT • 11:00 a.m. AT • 9:00 a.m. HT
RSVP (via Zoom)

We invite you to join a national virtual webinar highlighting the voices of communities on the front lines of border wall expansion and environmental destruction. During this webinar, you will hear directly from Arizona border communities resisting the expansion of the border wall and its devastating impacts on people, Indigenous lands, wildlife, and fragile ecosystems.

Declarations of Democracy - SWL Election Round Up

Monday, November 9
8:00 p.m. ET • 7:00 p.m. CT • 6:00 p.m. MT • 5:00 p.m. PT • 4:00 p.m. AT • 2:00 p.m. HT

The UUA’s Side With Love team will gather less than a week after election day, on November 9th, to reflect on what we know, what we’ve learned, and the road ahead.  Regardless of what happens on and after November 3rd, we know that it is our sacred call to shape a multiracial, interdependent democracy where everyone can thrive.

Join Side with Love’s Nicole Pressley, UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, musician Glen Thomas Rideout, and other special guests to strengthen your spirit, make sense of this moment in our democracy, and take meaningful action alongside others!  Register

Post-Election Rapid Response Series (Immigration Focus)

Thursday, November 12 & November 19
12:00 p.m. ET • 11:00 a.m. CT • 10:00 a.m. MT • 9:00 a.m. PT • 8:00 a.m. AT • 6:00 a.m. HT

Immigrant allies and friends in the solidarity work are invited to register for two online Rapid Response sessions on November 12th and November 19th. 

Connected Americans will cover Rapid Response’s purpose and best practices at the first session, and a deep dive into Deportation Defense campaigns in the second session. These sessions are for local organizers, advocates, clergy, and community members. Translation will be provided if requested.

All materials and comments will be presented along the thematic axis of immigration justice, and the narrative struggle around support for policy change that will follow the election.

Midterm Election Results and the Upcoming Anti-Hunger Landscape

Thursday, November 12
4:00 p.m. ET • 3:00 p.m. CT • 2:00 p.m. MT • 1:00 p.m. PT • 12:00 p.m. AT • 10:00 a.m. HT

Following the midterm elections, committee assignments and the anti-hunger landscape will likely shift in the next Congress. Join FRAC’s Legislative Team and guest Keith Stern, principal, Cornerstone, Washington, D.C., and Former Director of Floor Operations for the Democratic Leader and then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). FRAC’s Legislative Team will discuss how the midterms will affect anti-hunger advocacy and opportunities to engage your members of Congress during the lame-duck session and beyond. RSVP November 12

No Intimidation at Polling Places: Keep ICE and Military Away

With CHN Action, you can Tell Congress to keep ICE and military troops away from the polls and defend everyone’s right to vote without fear or intimidation.

Since the passage of H.R.1 (OBBBA), the administration has been attacking the services our communities and households rely on, including Medicaid and SNAP, along with funding for community organizations. At the same time, they have used the funds in H.R.1 to finance what amounts to an assault on our governance norms and expectations of enforceable constitutional rights via immigration enforcement activity.  They have deployed ICE and CBP to our communities, almost like a federal secret police, and are acculturating U.S. communities to ongoing harassment, kidnapping, and assault of our immigrant neighbors and loved ones. 

In recent months, they have signaled a willingness to deploy troops and armed federal agents to election sites, which federal law restricts as part of voter intimidation prohibitions. While the courts seem to be blocking this, we need to keep the pressure up on Congress

Oppose BAAJA’s Deregulation Approach to Permitting

The Senate is poised to vote on a permitting reform bill S.5653 the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA), that will facilitate a massive build-out of dirty energy to support AI Data Centers and threatens our bedrock environmental laws.

With Food and Water Watch Action, our friends in the People Versus Fossil Fuels Coalition, you can call Congress to oppose the bill using an auto dialer. 

A: Call your senators at 877-796-1949, tell them to oppose BAAJA because it will:

• Supercharge AI data center development by fast-tracking permits for gas pipelines, transmission lines, and other infrastructure they rely on.
• Limit opportunities for communities, states, and Tribes to review, challenge, or halt the gas infrastructure projects needed to power data centers. 
• Make it more profitable to power data centers with fracked gas by allowing gas-fired plants and backup diesel generators - built to serve data centers - to sell excess power and grid services.
• Keep gas projects online even if a data center isn’t built or no longer needs the power.
• Limit future administrations and Congress from slowing the data-center dirty-energy buildout.

B: Take a click action with other friends in the coalition:

• People vs Fossil Fuels
• Climate Justice Alliance
• Progressive Caucus Fund ACTION
• Oil Change International
• Demand Progress

C: Volunteer for in-district meetings

Fill out this Google Form to sign up for in-district meetings, with F&WW. Reach out to Drew Guillory <[email protected]> to coordinate further.

You can also reach out to your Members of Congress and any others whom you have access. Request a meeting or drop in to visit their office (in district).

Make the CTC and EITC a first 100-day priority 

The New York Times reports that Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is pushing to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the first 100 days of a potential Democratic Congress.

Join UUSJ, the UU Fellowship of Hidalgo County, Texas, and the Cedar Lane UUC, Maryland’s Environmental Justice Ministry, with the Economic Security Project and add your organizational voice in support.

The goal is to gain 300 organizational signers across all 50 states. All organizations that agree are welcome to join.  We still need representation from Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Share the sign-on form with your UU and non-UU organizational networks.

Today, on Nov. 2 – Día de los Muertos, Say Their Names

This Día de los Muertos, we are honoring the people who died in ICE custody and in enforcement this year — fathers, mothers, neighbors, each with a name. Place marigolds. Print a name. Light a candle. Build something your community will stop and ask about.

A person dies twice: once when they leave this world, and again when no one says their name. We refuse the second death. Sign the Solidarity pledge.

In 2025, ICE reported 33 deaths in its custody, the highest total in more than two decades, and at least 27 more people have reportedly died in custody so far in 2026. Others, immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, have been killed in the course of immigration enforcement. We hold each in LOVE, and refuse their second death.

Troubles at the Polls? Remember...

For many Unitarian Universalists and other people of faith and conscience, voting is both spiritual practice and civic responsibility—an almost sacred practice — as Rep. Jon Lewis suggested. It’s one of the principal ways we help shape the communities where we live, and the country we sustain through our daily activity and lifelong journey.

Have you voted yet? Have you made your voting plan? Will you be volunteering for the election? We cherish our faith’s call to embrace a generous and transformative pluralism, a deeper love that demands interdependence, equity, and justice. That is part of why we vote.

Our friends in WISC (the Washington Interfaith Staff Community), the Interfaith Alliance, remind us: if we are having trouble at the polls, call one of the following numbers:

• 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)
• 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español)
• 1-888-API-VOTE (Asian multilingual assistance)
• 1-844-YALLA-US (Arabic)

Once your plan is set, make sure you are encouraging others to vote. Post a photo of your voting sticker on social media and tag UUSJ @uusj.bsky.social as well as @intrfthalliance.

Buzz Worthy:

Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich, A recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation, Thinking About, Substack by Robert Reich

The Ballot Box and the Fight for Federal Control

Over the last year, ProPublica has published a series of in-depth investigations into the Trump administration’s attempts to assert federal control over elections, an effort that has increasingly defined Donald Trump’s second presidency. This includes:

• The administration’s attempts to sharply restrict mail-in voting 
• Efforts to interfere with the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to deliver election mail in a timely manner
• The failed hunt for noncitizen voters
• How SAVE, was highly inaccurate and had misidentified hundreds of eligible voters in Missouri and Texas as potential noncitizens.
• The ways the administration has systematically demolished the institutional guardrails that held — barely — when Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.

Also worth a look: Executive Override: How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections, and what you can do about it by Protect Democracy

Scenario Review

It’s not too late to review Freedom Trainers Election Defense Scenarios, a field guide for protecting democracy. Reflection and preparation reduce shock and speed up response time. 

The guide walks you through several detailed scenarios, giving activists, advocates, poll volunteers, and everyday citizens the knowledge we need before a crisis. It showcases how regular people have successfully pushed back in similar situations. It offers clear-eyed analysis alongside concrete, actionable responses. Their suggestions are grounded in law, history, and proven organizing strategy. We're watching the scenarios they present.

Also worth a look: Every Vote Counts: Combating Election Sabotage and Safeguarding Our Democracy, The Campaign Legal Center

Election Protection Orientations

Hands Off Our Vote, by Indivisible in partnership with hundreds of civil rights organizations, labor unions, grassroots groups, community groups, legal experts, and more across the nation, offers a variety of helpful election season tools and materials via their We Will Vote Linktree. 

In particular, the “on-demand training” in election protection can help you quickly get up to speed on the basics.

• Hands Off Our Vote! 2026 Election Protection Kickoff Call (Video)
• Hands Off Our Vote! Indivisible Election Protection 101 Training (Video)(Slides)

The Damage Wrought to Our Republic

As we approach the midterm election and the expected post-election protection period, here are a quartet of reports by the ACLU, including the one with AFL-CIO, that showcase the damage the administration has wrought on our republic, our governance norms, in our communities, and especially since H.R.1 (OBBBA) financed their enforcement regime:

• 76 Ways Mass Deportation is Breaking our Democracy
• Agents of Chaos and Cruelty on the extent of ICE abuses and violence
• Deputized for Disaster on the co-opting of state and local law enforcement into a national mass deportation force
• Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All, with the AFL-CIO, on the economic damage being wrought

Brief News Highlights

• The 6 races that could decide Senate control, The Hill
• Judge blocks DOJ from threatening elect officials over noncitizen voting claims, The Hill
• Judge orders Trump officials not to threaten or intimidate election workers, WaPo
• Trump, DOJ sued over ‘flagrantly unlawful’ demand Washington set aside 400 ballots, Democracy Docket
• As Trump seeks influence in midterms, election officials focus on security, Christian Science Monitor
• Preventing Voter Intimidation, Campaign Legal Center
• Administration Grasps at Straws in Latest Bid to Mess with Elections, Brennan Center
• FBI, ICE won’t contribute to poll monitoring: Justice Department, The Hill
• ‘BIG cheating’: This is Trump’s team on election claims and what they could do in November, CNN
• Thousands of observers expected to monitor polling sites nationwide on Election Day, KARE-11
• Trump disinvited international election observers. Here’s what that could mean, Christian Science Monitor
• Faith leaders unite across religions to counter voter intimidation on Election Day, AP

H.R.1 (OBBBA) Financed the Assault on our Republic

If you abhor Reconciliation 1.0, H.R.1 (OBBBA), and its impacts, consider joining us in our work with Covenant For Our Future, and take the individual pledge; or consider joining as a religious organization.

Present in Alexandria, Louisiana

UUs were on the ground in Alexandria, LA, opposing the opening of a new detention facility intended for children and parents at England Airpark. See Faith leaders hold vigil in Alexandria, question voluntary self-deportation for minors, Verite News. 

“It’s terrifying to be in the carceral system for anybody at any age, and to be a child without your trusted adults is a life-changing level of trauma,” said Leslie Takahashi, a pastor at Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, California

If the facility opens, it will be the second such facility in the U.S. the other being Diley, in Texas, where the Texas UU Justice Ministry (TXUUJM) has been actively engaged. We, like TXUUJM, feel one center for kids and parents in Texas is one too many. At UUSJ we have always been against kids in cages. We can't abide this heartlessness. 

• See a Facebook video summary about Alexandria, LA by MSNOW
• Opponents of ICE facility in Alexandria hold their own forum after public hearing canceled, Louisiana Illuminator
• England Airpark monitoring groundwater quality following study of contaminated bases, KALB 5

Documenting the Disappearances 

Disappeared in America is backed by the Illinois Accountability Commission and documents roughly 500 stories of immigrants and American citizens who report being impacted by current U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.

The Cost of Deportations Calculator

The Trump administration is taking billions of taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations.

What could this money be used for instead? Reconciliation 1.0, H.R.1 (OBBBA), enabled the Trump administration to take our taxpayer dollars and use them to pay for mass deportations. The figures have been hard to grasp–until now. Review the Calculator.

Mass deportations—An anti-worker agenda that harms everyone

Immigration enforcement and deportations have made the front page almost every day this year. The immediate trauma of these lawless, violent attacks on immigrants and our communities is clear, but it's easy to miss the longer-term economic fallout of aggressive immigration enforcement that will harm all of us. All workers, as well as our local communities—especially our local area economies and labor markets —will face lingering, persistent harms.

Links to related reports and posts:

• Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Making the Affordability Crisis Worse, ACLU
• Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs: Both immigrants and U.S.-born workers would suffer job losses, particularly in construction and childcare, and The Cost of Deportations Calculator, and Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farm workers: New estimates show farm workers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate, Economic Policy Institute
• The ICE Effect: Immigration Enforcement, Jobs & the Economy, University of Colorado Boulder
• Economic Impacts Immigration October 2026, EIRC
• The economic and fiscal impacts of mass deportation: Whats-at-Risk in Washington State, WA Budget and Policy Center & Immigration Research Initiative
• WHO PAYS FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS? WE DO!, Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative
• Care for America: The Intertwined Futures of Care for American Families and Immigrants, ASA Generations

Articles Shared By The Team

• Losing Status: An Estimated 3.5 million Immigrants Are Projected to Lose Status By 2028, Fwd.us
• How ICE arrests are affecting families and children in CT, Connecticut Public
• ICE agent enters campus at Delaware middle school, district says, Spotlight Delaware
• ICE Announces Third Detained Death in 8 Days, 60 Under the Trump II Administration, Kocher Substack

H.R.1 (OBBBA) Supercharged Draconian Enforcement

If you abhor Reconciliation 1.0, H.R.1 (OBBBA), and its impacts, join us in our work with Covenant For Our Future by taking the individual pledge, or join as a religious organization.

Buzz Worthy:

Tax Cuts aren't cutting it with voters. A recent poll and news report from Politico showed that not only are midterm voters not impressed with H.R.1 (OBBBA) or its failed rebrand, but “more voters prioritize taxing the rich more than embracing tax cuts elsewhere." See: The GOP’s hopes of a tax cut election are falling flat, poll shows

Data Center Tax Legislation

Senator Wyden (D-OR) is talking up the Stability and Opportunity for Workers Act of 2026 (Summary)(Press Release), his package that establishes an excise tax on data center operators and removes unnecessary tax breaks for data centers, such as bonus depreciation, opportunity zone benefits, and research and development tax credits. The package outlines key policy priorities for Senate Democrats addressing technological unemployment. See the New York Times or Roll Call. 

Other bills on the data center issue (longer piece):

• Data Center Tax Accountability and Disclosure Act of 2026 (S. 5054): Introduced by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), this bill shares Wyden's goal of stripping bonus depreciation from AI data centers and mandates transparency regarding resource consumption
• Data Center Transparency Act (S. 5640): A bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and John Curtis (R-UT) focused on recurring federal reporting regarding energy and community impacts.
• Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act (S. 4214): A more aggressive bill by Senator Sanders (I-VT) is designed to pause the building or upgrading of AI data centers altogether until comprehensive federal safeguards are enacted.

Tax Breaks and the AI Data Center Boom

A new report, “Power and Profits,” from Sens. Warren (D-MA), Van Hollen (D-MD), and Blumenthal (D-CT) addresses how tax breaks are driving the AI data center boom and costing households and communities needed resources. The report found that Big Tech data center companies are not doing enough to pay their “‘fair share,’ and … continue to aggressively seek financial subsidies from residential ratepayers and state and local governments. This leaves ratepayers, taxpayers, and local communities shouldering many of the costs while Big Tech reaps the benefits.” Press Release

Trump Taxes and Costs: National and State Estimates

An updated report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy argues “the main policies of President Trump during his second term in office have had the net effect of raising taxes and costs in 2026 for the typical American in every income group except for the richest 1 percent.”  Read the report, Impact of Key Trump Policies on Taxes and Costs: National and State Estimates.

The figures in the report represent the impact of three main policies:

• New Tax Policies Enacted as Part of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
• Policies Causing Excess Price Increases.
• End of an Expanded Tax Credit for Health Care.

ITEP finds that the less income one has, the worse off they typically are under Trump’s policies. The exception is the richest 1 percent of Americans, who benefit overall. The net effect, for most Americans, is that any tax from H.R.1 (OBBBA) is more than offset by price increases and, in many cases, by the further loss of the expanded health care tax credit.

H.R.1 (OBBBA) Facilitated Economic Inequity

If you abhor Reconciliation 1.0, H.R.1 (OBBBA), and its impacts, consider joining us in our work with Covenant For Our Future and taking the individual pledge, or consider joining as a religious organization.

Issue Blitz:

Beat China is one of the themes of the year, and to do that, the U.S. seems to be turning to its old friend, fossil fuels; FERC Launches NEPA Overhaul to Accelerate Natural Gas Projects, yet reporting by Bloomberg suggests China’s AI Race Against the U.S. hinges on harnessing its Green Energy Advantage.

Time magazine pointed to something many UUs have been saying and feeling for a while: “We Have a Climate Imagination Problem.” See What Happens Next in Climate Change?

Likely presidential candidate Gavin Newsom condemns Democrats’ “Climate Hushing” CCN, a silencing trend that has been fueling the flashpoint of Data Centers and AI since the spring.

Since Judges Keep Striking Down Climate Laws. Some States Are Fighting Back, Mother Jones, which feels like welcome news

Permitting Reform vs. Deregulation Controversy

In late September, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced S.5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) (Press Release), looking to pass it before year’s end. A cloture vote is scheduled for Monday, November 9, the first day back from the midterms.

The release of BAAJA has kicked off a storm of controversy and analysis. 

• Industry, trade associations, and energy-aligned actors immediately began to celebrate.
• Environmental Justice and Climate Justice-aligned actors began to sound the alarm. 
• Big Greens mostly struck a cautious, some say a politically deferential posture.
• Congress, as a general tendency, quickly began looking for ways to get to a yes vote.
• Community-based organizations and grassroots activists began voicing outrage. 

And questions linger:

• Is the bipartisan proposal prudent and wise at this juncture or tone deaf? 
• Are the tradeoffs worth the costs? 
• Is the modeling being used framed properly are the real emissions being tracked? 
• Are some of the proponents too deeply vested with financial interests among beneficiaries if the bill becomes law, even some of the detractors?

UUSJ Opposes BAAJA

We find the tradeoff being proffered too steep a price, and we love our neighbors too much to remain silent or inactive. See the UU Joint Statement, on this matter for our position.

See the "Featured Action Section" for ways to enagege.

Once again into the breach

For long-time activists and analysts, the BAAJA proposal has opened old wounds and fissures in the environmental movement writ large, recalling when in 1990, inspired by the strategies of grassroots allies on the Gulf Coast, Richard Moore and other members of SWOP (Southwest Organizing Project) penned an open letter to the 10 Big Greens to point out that the organizations that were nominally concerned with “environmental issues” paid little mind to community leaders and perspectives: the concerns that would become environmental justice.

BAAJA has reminded many communities they can not count on dominant culture actors, nor major national non-profits, to protect them. They point to foundational environmental analysis such as The 17 Principles of Environmental Justice (1991) and The Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing (1996) as guideposts for what should be happening, and decry what they view as a typical Wall Street, Capitol Hill backroom deal which now includes Silicon Valley. 

The proposal is viewed as another instance of Congress willing to perpetuate sacrifice zones and sacrifice constituencies, rather than pursue A Durable Vision for Permitting Reform (Webinar), Climate Justice Alliance.

Videos via Social Media:

• Dallas Goldtooth on BAAJA
• John Beard, Jr. on BAAJA
• Candace Schmidt on BAAJA
• Anthony Beaver on BAAJA
• Lyndsay Tarus on BAAJA
• Crystal Cavalier on BAAJA
• Pelea Movement on BAAJA
• Trouble Makers Community on BAAJA
• Before It's Gone - 106 Strong, Cultural Heritage Partners
• Climate Justice Alliance
• Western Environmental Law Center
• WeAct 4 Environmental Justice
• Oil Change International (on how this bill supports Data Center buildout)

Related Coverage:

• This is not the permit reform deal that was advertised, Symons Says, Substack
• Democrats Could Face A Data Center Backlash Of Their Own, Huff Post
• A ‘Bipartisan’ Bill to Dismantle the Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law, The Revelator
• The Muddy Waters of BAAJA, Yale Journal on Regulation
• Why we’re opposing the new permitting reform bill, Environment America
• NEPA Review for Data Centers: When It Applies and What Changed in 2025, Black Forge
• What power plants are people trying to build? MISO edition, Kevin Kircher
• The Senate permitting bill would lock in data centers and nuclear waste on public lands. It only gets worse from there, West Wise
• Permitting reform would de-fang bedrock environmental law, High Country News
• Key Democrat warns permitting bill could create "gold rush for gas", Axios

Green Issue Coverage

• Faith leaders unite to counter voter intimidation on election day, Los Angeles Times
• World Bank Pours $35.89 Billion Into False Climate Solutions as Communities Bear the Cost, Pressenza
• Who’s telling you climate change is no big deal?, Heated
• Boulder seeks damages for climate harms in pivotal Supreme Court suit, The Hill
• Giant “heat storms” are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record, Reuters
• Century-old church ruins stand as symbol of climate change in Vietnam, Vietnamnet
• The ‘Kelvin wave’ hitting California is a potent warning about sea-level rise, Scientific American
• Global oceans report delivers ‘starkest warning yet’, CNN
• Judge throws out U.S. DOJ attempt to deny communities' day in court against Musk’s company, xAI, Earthjustice
• Indigenous leaders have climate solutions. This group helps them get funding., Yale Climate Connections
• How one Chicago program is diversifying the solar workforce, Canary Media
• Black church leaders broaden voter outreach ahead of midterm elections,RNS
• New group seeks to help US small towns lead the clean energy transition, NC Newsline
• City of Tampa pays for residents to replace grass lawns with drought-resistant native plants, WFLA
• How low-cost climate solutions are helping cities recover from major storms faster, NPR 
• FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel, Electrek
• Faith, Voting and Creation Care: News from Blessed Tomorrow, ELCA
• Climate Change Has It In for the World’s Best Surfing, Wired

H.R.1 (OBBBA) Launched a Data Center Boom

If you abhor Reconciliation 1.0, H.R.1 (OBBBA), and its impacts, join us in our work with Covenant For Our Future by taking the individual pledge, or join as a religious organization.