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The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is visible in Reserve, La., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Environmental advocates and residents of the Louisiana chemical corridor known as Cancer Alley have spent decades calling for change in the way industrial activity is regulated there. The EPA and the Louisiana environmental agency spent months negotiating an agreement that would have fundamentally changed the state's air pollution permitting program. It ultimately fell apart without an agreement. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Shuttered EPA investigation could’ve brought 'meaningful reform' in Cancer Alley, documents show
By HALLE PARKER, WWNO, NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC RADIO
Wed,09/06/23-9:54AM , 122 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have spent decades calling for change.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during the annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., Aug. 5, 2023. Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky's abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign by linking his Republican challenger to an extreme scenario of the strict law — requiring young victims of rape or incest to carry their pregnancies to term. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File)

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Kentucky Democrat Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign
By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-11:39PM , 123 Reads
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov.
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A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama's congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

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Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-11:09PM , 83 Reads
Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida
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Three people sit with a sign at a Campbell County, Wyo., Library Board meeting, July 23, 2023, in Gillette, Wyo. The library system is among several local and state libraries that have cut ties with the American Library Association amid criticism that the librarian professional group, which has stood up for books some deem harmful to youngsters, has become politicized. (Ed Glazar/Gillette News Record via AP)

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Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books
By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-5:18AM , 142 Reads
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal — and keeping out of collections.
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