Texas coal companies are leaving behind contaminated land. The state is letting them.

Grist
By Naveena SadasivamOct 30, 2019, 1:00 am173 pts
In the late 1970s, at the tail end of a sweeping push to bring electricity to rural Texas, Alonzo Peeler Jr. struck a series of deals with three electric cooperatives: They could build a coal-fired power plant on the sprawling Atascosa County ranch where his family had run cattle for more than a century. And…

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