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Local-Level Fossil Fuel Fights Face Violent Retaliation From Industry
If fossil fuel companies can’t sway governments to crush resistance, they go to the courts, the media or the clergy.
![The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, pictured October 14, 2013.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/2020_0414-louisiana-prison-angola-400x300.jpg)
Louisiana Issued a COVID Memo to Release Prisoners — Then Quickly Rescinded It
Louisiana is a COVID-19 epicenter with the U.S.’s highest incarceration rate, but officials won’t release its prisoners.
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Black People in Louisiana Account for 70 Percent of the State’s COVID-19 Deaths
Black people make up just 32 percent of Louisiana’s population.
![Louisiana law bans cities like New Orleans from raising the minimum wage and requiring paid sick leave for workers.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/04/2020_0403-new-orleans-covid-19-400x300.jpg)
Right-Wing Austerity Set New Orleans Up to Be a Coronavirus Disaster Zone
Louisiana law bans cities like New Orleans from raising the minimum wage and requiring paid sick leave for workers.
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Supreme Court Revisits Abortion Law Similar to One Struck Down in 2016
The court already struck down a state restriction in Texas on which the current case is based.
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Louisiana Residents Are Mobilizing to Push for Air Monitoring After Exxon Fire
For residents near chemical plants in Baton Rouge, a sense of safety and access to clean air are not a given.
![An oil refinery in Chalmette, Louisiana.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/02/2020_0206-Chalmette-refinery-400x300.jpg)
Refineries Are Spewing Cancer-Causing Benzene as Trump Slashes Enforcement
New federal rules require the worst offenders to clean up their acts, but enforcement has tumbled under Trump.
![Razor wire is seen on the Metropolitan Detention Center prison on July 14, 2019, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/GettyImages-1155632261-400x300.jpg)
Hunger Striker Nearing Death in ICE Custody: “I Just Want Freedom”
Advocates are demanding ICE release five asylum seekers after a months-long hunger strike in a Louisiana jail.
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The Corporate Assault on Cancer Alley Created an Environmental Justice Warrior
Sharon Lavigne is sick of being told by politicians that chemical plants are welcome in historically Black communities.
![Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at New York's Grand Central Station on August 29, 2019, to denounce the Trump administration's immigrant detention and deportation policies.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/01/2020_0109-asylum-protest-400x300.jpg)
After 68 Days, Hunger Strikers in ICE Custody Are on the Brink of Death
Hunger strikes have erupted at immigration jails nationwide in recent years.