(Washington Examiner) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy met with senior Vatican officials Friday to "discuss the moral obligation" of the Roman Catholic Church to act on climate change, according to the EPA.
The meeting comes as Pope Francis is preparing to issue an encyclical — an official papal letter given to the church's 5,000 bishops and 400,000 priests — on the environment and climate change.
"McCarthy applauded Pope Francis's engagement with the issue and conveyed President Obama's commitment to cutting carbon pollution and detailed what EPA, through its Clean Power Plan, and other federal agencies are doing to address climate change and demonstrate leadership," an official EPA readout stated.
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