Months after a fatal methane explosion destroyed a home and killed a resident above the Oak Grove coal mine, Alabama regulators have indefinitely suspended plans to require methane monitoring at expanding mines—a move experts call “astonishing and reckless.”
Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers have said in a major new study.
