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Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse’

Inside Climate News · By Lee Hedgepeth · last updated
Under the Biden Administration, federal regulators had forced the state toward stricter regulation of methane emissions. Under Trump, they appear to have lifted the pressure.

By Lee Hedgepeth

OAK GROVE, Ala.—It’s been a long two years for Lisa Lindsay.