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Despite Presidential Promises, a Texas Town Looks at Life After Coal

Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/KUT
Rockdale, a city of 5,600 about an hour away from Austin, could be devastated by the closure of the Sandow Power Plant and a coal mine that feeds it.

Central Texas communities are expected to lose some 450 jobs.