Reverend Mitchell Hescox encourages Christians to advocate for renewable energy

Reverend Mitchell Hescox encourages Christians to advocate for clean energy … a surprising cause for a man who grew up in coal country.

Hescox: “My grandfathers were both coal miners. My dad was a coal miner for the first part of his life.”

For fourteen years, Hescox worked in the industry, too, designing equipment. But he slowly began learning about what he calls the true costs of coal: acid rain, air pollution, water pollution, and climate change.

Read the Yale Climate Connections story - “Reverend Mitchell Hescox encourages Christians to advocate for renewable energy.”