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A School Board Says No to Big Oil, and Alarms Sound in Business-Friendly Louisiana

Source: https://nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/louisiana-itep-exxon-mobil.html - Feb 5, 2019

BATON ROUGE, La. — It was a squabble over $2.9 million in property-tax breaks — small change for Exxon Mobil, a company that measures its earnings by the billions.

But when the East Baton Rouge Parish school board rejected the energy giant’s rather routine request last month, the “no” vote went off like a bomb in a state where obeisance to the oil, gas and chemical industries is the norm.

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