Climate Change and Energy News

• Press Clips from 2006 Climate Change Campaign, [pdf] Various Sources, December 21, 2006

• "Zionist environmentalism," Salon.com, December 13, 2006

• "On this year’s Festival of Lights, groups add conservationist touch," JTA News, December 4, 2006

• “Saving Energy, the World and Money: A new take on Hanukkah lights,” The Philadelphia Jewish Voice, December, 2006

• "Environment group: ‘How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb?’" New Jersey Jewish News: Central Feature, November 23, 2006

• “Saving Energy, the World and Money: A new take on Hanukkah lights,” Jewish Social Policy Action Network, October 26, 2006

• COEJL's CFL Campaign is in the news! Don't Just Sit in the Dark - Washington Jewish Week - August 3, 2006

• COEJL has embarked on a new climate change campaign, "A Light Among the Nations," and we need your participation! Click here to find out "How Many Jews Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?"

• The film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH creates an opportunity to educate your community about this very critical issue and to take action.

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  News Archive
• COEJL becomes a featured partner of The Virtual March to Stop Global Warming. - Dec. 15, 2005
• Global Warming: Why Jews Should Care by Adam C. Stern in The Jewish Week - Dec. 2, 2005
• COEJL Represented at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Canada - Dec. 1, 2005
• Interfaith Letter to Congress Supporting Raising CAFE Standards - October 6, 2005
• Earth's Climate Embraces Us All: A Plea from Religion and Science for Action on Global Climate Change – May 24, 2004
• Religious Leaders Urge U.S. Senate to Act on Climate, from Wall Street Journal – May 19, 2004
• COEJL Applauds New Diesel Emissions Standards – May 12, 2004
• "What Should the Governor Drive?" campaign kicks off, from AP – September 23, 2003
• A Victory for the Arctic Refuge – March 19, 2003
• Coalition Of Religious Leaders Urge Automakers To Create Cleaner Cars, Calling Car Purchases A Moral Choice - November 19, 2002
• Interfaith Campaign for Cleaner Cars in the news:
  • from the New York Times, November 19, 2002
  • from Detroit Free Press, November 20, 2002
  • from the Washington Post, November 8, 2002
  • from Salon.com, November 21, 2002
• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Praises Senate Vote on ANWR - April 18, 2002
• Broad Jewish Coalition Urges Protection for Arctic Refuge
  Opposes Link to Israel's Energy Security - April 17, 2002
• Jewish Coalition Urges Action on a Comprehensive Energy Security Policy - Calls on Congress to Set Aside Debate over Drilling in the Arctic and Focus on Conservation and Technological Innovation - April 9, 2002
• Jewish and Christian Leaders Join in Support of Bold Energy Conservation Program - February 26, 2002
• Congregations Link Celebration Of Hanukkah With Energy Conservation - December 3, 2001
• Jewish Coalition Calls for Action on Energy Security: Supports Energy Conservation and Opposes Drilling in the Arctic Refuge - November 8, 2001
• 500 Rabbis Challenge President's Energy Policies from The Forward - August 3, 2001
• Rabbis and the Environment from The Forward Editorial Page - August 3, 2001
• House Adopts Energy Bill (HR4) to Drill in Alaska - August 2, 2001
• Rabbis Across Nation Call for "Moral Reflection" on Energy Policy and Global Warming - July 31, 2001
• Ecology movement now getting religion from Boston Globe page A1 - July 8, 2001
• Values increasingly at core of environmental debate from Boston Globe - July 5, 2001
• Scholars: God Wants People to Conserve Energy from FoxNews.com - July 5, 2001
• Jewish Coalition Opposes Bush's Approach on Climate - June 11, 2001
• Churches seek 'climate justice' from Washington Times - May 24, 2001
• Statement of Rabbi David Saperstein Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism at interfaith press conference on national energy policy - May 22, 2001
• In Open Letter, 39 National Religious Leaders Call for Moral Reflection on Energy Policy – May 21, 2001
• National Religious Leaders To Set Bush Energy Plan Against ‘Biblical Standards of Stewardship, Justice’ at Capitol Hill Rally – May 17, 2001
• Special Report on Global Warming - April 9, 2001 Issue of Time Magazine
• Bush Turn on Treaty Galvanizes New Green Coalition from LA Times - April 7, 2001
• Religious Leaders Rebuke Bush Administration Over Kyoto Protocol from Ecumenical News International - April 4, 2001
• Bush Wrecking Environmental Gains from Cox Newspapers columnist Tom Teepen - April 4, 2001
• Faith-based Environmental Groups Hope Bush Sees the Light from Scripps Howard News Service - April 3, 2001
• State Campaign Coordinator Letter to President Bush – April 3, 2001
• Coalition Raps Bush on Global Warming from Washington Post - March 30, 2001
• Senior Religious Leader's Letter to President Bush – March 29, 2001
• JCPA Open Letter to President Bush - March 28, 2001
• Private Memo from EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman to President Bush as published in Washington Post - March 26, 2001
• Catholics Bishops Issue Statement on Global Climate Change – June 15, 2000
• COEJL Calls for Clean and Sustainable Energy - March 3, 2000
• Statement on Fuel Economy - February 10, 2000