Texas Turnaround

Living on Earth
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Texas power giant TXU was on a fast track to build eleven new coal-fired plants. Now an investment group is poised to take over the utility and, after negotiating with environmental groups, is canceling all but three of the coal plants. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young looks at how the deal went down.

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