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The Pope Led Notre Dame Toward Decarbonization. He Hasn’t Influenced the School’s Alabama Coal Investment

Inside Climate News · By Lee Hedgepeth · last updated
Despite a divinely inspired pledge to environmentalism, the Indiana college has maintained a lease of its mineral rights to an Alabama coal company. University officials are mum on details.

By Lee Hedgepeth

TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala.—On issues of climate change, the pope’s influence may stop at the Alabama border.