The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an environmental justice organization that advocates for communities most impacted by the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. It has fought construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge oil pipeline, and newly released documents indicate activists were targets of surveillance.

The environmental justice organization and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a public records request [PDF] with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ).   ...

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