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

By Texas Standard

Published November 17, 2017 at 11:54 AM CST

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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.

Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/KUT

Central Texas communities are expected to lose some 450 jobs.