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General Assembly instructs PC(USA) to divest from five fossil fuel companies

But some, especially young adults, say the church needs to do more as "the land burns."

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Marcela Martinez (YAAD-The Pacific, center) listens to online testimony during the Environmental Justice Committee. Photo by Gregg Brekke for Presbyterian Outlook.

Louisville, Kentucky — The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted July 6 to divest from five oil and gas companies it concluded are not moving quickly enough to try to slow global warming — Chevron, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero Energy.

MRTI representatives speak in the Environmental Justice Committee meeting.

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Leslie Scanlon

Leslie Scanlon is the former national news reporter for the Outlook. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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