As Trump Enters Office, a Ripe Oil and Gas Target Appears: An Alabama National Forest

Inside Climate News · By Lee Hedgepeth · last updated January 28, 2025 – 12:06 AM

In the final days of the Biden administration, agency officials began the process of soliciting public opinion on future oil and gas development of Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama. Will Donald Trump finish the job?

By Lee Hedgepeth

CONECUH COUNTY, Ala.—At the confluence of the Yellow River and Pond Creek in Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, there’s a place of peace.

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