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TribCast: Captured by coal, a Legislative Budget Board in turmoil

On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Kiah, Edgar, Emma and Cassi about a major Tribune investigation into coal clean-ups in Texas, state leaders’ role in a North Texas child custody case, a mass exodus from the Legislative Budget Board and the latest on the House speaker.

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The former Thermo Mine facility in Sulphur Springs on Aug. 16, 2019.
The former Thermo Mine facility in Sulphur Springs. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune

On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Kiah, Edgar, Emma and Cassi about a major Texas Tribune investigation into coal clean-ups in Texas, state leaders’ role in a North Texas child custody case, a mass exodus from the Legislative Budget Board and the latest on the House speaker.

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