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RESERVE, La. - Michael Coleman's house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery whose sounds and smells keep him up at night and a massive grain elevator that covers his pickup in dust and, he says, exacerbates his breathing problems.Coleman, 65, points to the billowing smokestacks just outside his backyard. "Oh, when the plants came in, they built right on top of us," he said. "We was surrounded by sugarcane, and now we’re surrounded by (industrial) plants."The oil company offered Coleman a buyout, but he rejected it. "I’m waiting for a fair shake," he said in an interview on the front steps of the home he has lived in for more than 50 years.

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