In response to Life of the Lay below:

As in cheap natural gas displacing coal (yes, with it's own environmental issues)? As in putting restrictions on allowing coal companies to shove mountaintops into the valleys polluting miles of rivers and streams?  

I suspect you have no clue as to the history of the mining and extraction industries. I would suggest you research the history of California Gulch in Leadville, Colorado and why nothing can live in the stream between there and the Arkansas River nearly a century after the mines shut down. A history of labor relations in the same area would also be helpful.

Care for creation as well as one another is part of our vocation as bearers of the Image of our Creator. I would suggest we have an obligation to protect both the environment AND the right of the displaced miners to have work.  Protection of the idolatry of money, as in profits over people and creation, is what I would call Sin. (Yes, with a capital "S")