Texas Tribune: Big coal gave a tiny Texas town free land. There’s a major catch.

Oct. 30 — Sulphur Springs leaders say they want Luminant — Texas’ largest electricity generator — to leave in place a 120-foot-tall mound of excavated dirt at the site of a shuttered coal mine so they can build an amphitheater. But the soil contains potentially dangerous materials, according to state regulators.

— Texas Tribune