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A complicated name, but a simple idea:

As recent events have demonstrated, the production of oil, coal and natural gas comes at great environmental and human cost. To waste these resources needlessly adds to suffering in our world and to the already dangerous levels of CO2 in our atmosphere.

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A complicated name, but a simple idea:

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  1. As recent events have demonstrated, the production of oil, coal and natural gas comes at great environmental and human cost.

  2. To waste these resources needlessly adds to suffering in our world and to the already dangerous levels of CO2 in our atmosphere. As people of faith, we have a responsibility to be better stewards of our environmental resources.

  3. We could limit the ecological and health damages (such as toxic mercury from our coal-burning power plants) simply by requiring more energy efficiency as the law of the land.

  4. What are Energy Efficiency Resource Standards? A complicated name, but a simple idea: They’re national standards for energy efficiency, just like we have in Pennsylvania (Act 129). Like mileage requirements for cars, industry actually wants national standards instead of various state standards, and we want them because waste and inefficiency make up a huge part of our carbon footprint.

  5. For commercial buildings, like most houses of worship, the EPA estimates that 30% of the energy is wasted. Power plants also waste a tremendous amount of energy.

  6. As in Pennsylvania, national Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS) can be combined with support for more renewable energy as part of a comprehensive approach to reduce our carbon footprint.

  7. Urge your senators to: • Require more energy efficiency as the law of the land by passing comprehensive climate and energy legislation this year. • Include an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS), which will mandate that the country use less energy over time to achieve the same output.

  8. Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light is a community of congregations, faith-based organizations, and individuals of faith who respond to climate change as a moral issue, through advocacy, energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the use of clean, renewable energy.

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