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Coal Clean Up, Texas Style

08.18.2016 - By Inside EnergyPlay

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Amid a wave of historic coal bankruptcies, states like Texas and Colorado, have taken proactive steps to make sure coal companies are on the hook for their future cleanup costs. In other states, like Wyoming, over a billion dollars of these cleanup costs have gotten tied up in bankruptcy court. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports on why we’re seeing different outcomes in different energy-rich states, starting off in a small town in central Texas called Elgin.

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