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Texas regulators on Tuesday approved a 12,000-acre coal mine expansion despite objections from local governments and a river authority concerned about their water supplies.
Three nearby counties, two cities, a river authority, a groundwater district, and several landowners had asked Texas’ upstream energy regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, not to permit a new coal mine and ash disposal along the tributaries that fed their drinking water reservoir, Choke Canyon lake.
