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Federal Judge Undoes Key Civil Rights Protections in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Earlier this week, in a culmination of a decade-long fight, James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump, decided to block the …