Editorial: La. weaponizing public records against its own citizens

In a highly unusual move, the state of Louisiana has filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request. Now, Louisiana has often sued the feds in recent years. But what makes this suit worrying is what it seeks: emails and correspondence between the EPA and several activists and journalists who were looking into how the state has regulated plants in the area known as “Cancer Alley.”

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