For communities across the Gulf South, the fight for clean air, safe water, and a livable future has never been abstract. It is lived every day — in asthma rates, in refinery flares lighting up the night sky, in the steady creep of petrochemical buildout along our coastlines. There is also abject poverty that accompanies these policy driven conditions. And once again, national decisions about oil, foreign policy, and corporate power are placing frontline communities directly

Two major conferences — one in Brazil and the other in Austria.

Representatives from the Vatican and Catholic organizations spoke about how to invest responsibly towards transition to renewable energies.