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Environmental Health

"Religion: Pope Might Make Environmental Destruction A Sin"

"In weighing whether to add 'sins against ecology' to the Catholic Church's official teachings, Pope Francis is bolstering not only his climate credentials, said religious experts, but also his approach to environmental justice.

During a speech Friday at the Vatican, Pope Francis said it was a 'duty' to add the 'ecological sin against the common home' to the church catechism. His speech came during the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law.

Source: ClimateWire, 11/22/2019

"Bayer AG Discussed Plans To Give Not-For-Profit Funding For Influence"

"Bayer AG discussed plans to give the German drugs giant influence within a prestigious American not-for-profit dedicated to media freedoms that would protect and promote the company’s business interests in exchange for generous funding, records obtained by the Guardian show."

Source: Guardian, 11/22/2019

"‘Dark Waters’ Faces Inconvenient Truth of Environmental Activism"

"Actor-producer Mark Ruffalo is ... trying to translate film into political activism with Friday’s theatrical release of his Dark Waters, based on lawyer Rob Bilott’s years-long fight to hold DuPont Co. accountable for chemical contamination that a West Virginia farmer believed was killing his cattle."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/21/2019

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