Mike Ludwig
Mike Ludwig is an investigative reporter at Truthout and a contributor to the Truthout anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Follow him on Twitter: @ludwig_mike.
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Senate Narrowly Rejects Keystone XL Amidst Protests by Climate Activists
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
When Facebook Is the Internet: Zero-Rating and the Global Net Neutrality Debate
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
With Thumbs-Up From Obama, Net Neutrality Advocates See Victory in Sight
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
In Depth: How Big Business Buys State Courts
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Want the Truth About New York's Human Trafficking Courts? Ask a Sex Worker
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India's Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Carbon Capture and Clean Coal: Obama's Multibillion-Dollar Climate Pipedream
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
A Digital Desert: The Internet Debate Pits Local Communities Against Broadband Giants
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
"Internet Slowdown" Protest Rallies Support for Net Neutrality
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Surprise! GOP Lawmakers Investigating EPA and Climate Advocates Backed by Big Coal
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Hawaii's GMO Battle: Federal Judge Strikes Down Kauai's Pesticide Regulations
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Reflecting on Ferguson: When the Cops' Safety Is "Number One"
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Why the People of Ferguson Can't Trust the Cops
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
As Police Continue Ferguson Crackdown, Protesters Vow to Keep Taking the Streets
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Feds to Phase Out GMO Farms and Neonicotinoid Pesticides at Wildlife Refuges
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Federal Toxic Pollution Website Down for Months, Leaving Eco-Groups in the Dark
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Backed by Big Telecom, GOP Takes Aim at Net Neutrality and Community Broadband
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Experts Say NSA Surveillance Compromises Internet Security; Here's How to Protect Yourself
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Report
From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Supreme Court Backs Hobby Lobby - and Corporate Personhood
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
WikiLeaks Reveals Global Trade Deal Kept More Secret Than the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
California's Fracking Boom Just Got Busted
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Beyond Marriage: Advocates Call on Obama Administration to Combat LGBTQ Criminalization
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Facing Growing Grassroots Pressure, Wheeler Revises Net Neutrality Proposal
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
''Walking While Woman'' and the Fight to Stop Violent Policing of Gender Identity
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Is the FCC Poised to Destroy Net Neutrality?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Four Years After BP: Hunting for Oil Spills in Louisiana
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
To Stop an Overdose: Heroin, Narcan and the New Public Policies That Are Saving Lives
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
The New Citizens United: Supreme Court Strikes Down Political Spending Limits for Rich Donors
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
FCC Votes To Curb Media Consolidation in Local TV Markets
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Environmentalists Call For Ban on Fracking in Ohio After Earthquakes
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Sex Work Wars: Project ROSE, Monica Jones and the Fight for Human Rights
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Environmentalists Petition EPA to Ban Fracking Wastewater Dumping Off California Coast
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Spying on Activists: New Document Shows Army Targeted Olympia Anarchists, War Protesters
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
FCC Considers New Net Neutrality Rules
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
"Frackgate": Ohio Regulators Planned to Subvert Eco-Groups, Promote Fracking in State Parks
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
North Carolina Coal Ash Pond Still Leaking as Feds Launch Criminal Probe
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Coal Ash: The Dan River Spill and the Power Industry's Toxic Legacy
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as EPA Considers Waste Rules
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Democrats Introduce Bill to Restore FCC's Net-Neutrality Rules
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Shale Stories: Obama's Clean Energy Future Is a Fracking Nightmare for Rural America
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Hawaii's GMO War Headed to Honolulu and Federal Court
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Four Years After Citizens United: Is Campaign Cash Buying Justice in State Courts?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
Beyond Net Neutrality: Grassroots Voices Tell Tom Wheeler What's Up
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
USDA Moves to Approve "Agent Orange" GMO Seeds
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
The Year of the Immigrant Rights Movement
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News Analysis
NAFTA = Death: Artists Mark NAFTA's 20th Anniversary With Border Protest
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
The Fight Against HIV: Will Congress End the Syringe Exchange Funding Ban?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Too Many Secrets: Fixing the Government's Broken System for Classifying Information
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
In Depth: Journal Retracts Independent Study Linking Monsanto GMO Corn to Cancer in Rats
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
On the Front Lines of Hawaii's GMO War, Part Two
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
On the Front Lines of Hawaii's GMO War
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Coast Guard Moves to Approve Barging of Hazardous Fracking Waste on Major Rivers
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Monsanto Wins Again: Voters Reject Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Monsanto and Junk Food Companies Spend Millions to Fight GMO Labeling in Congress
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Activists Petition Goodwill to Pay Disabled Workers the Minimum Wage
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Food Companies and Monsanto Spend Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Home Heating Costs Expected to Rise This Winter Despite Gas Fracking Boom
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Corporate Media's Hidden Wave of Consolidation
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Washington Attorney General Sues GMO Labeling Opponents for Hiding Corporate Donors
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
More Details on Ocean Fracking Revealed as Environmentalists Challenge Federal Regulators
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Supreme Court Hears GOP Challenge to Political Donation Limits
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
The Hard Numbers on Fracking: Radiation, Toxic Wastewater and Air Pollution
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
In Depth: The Debate Over the EPA's New Carbon Capture Climate Scheme
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Eco-Investigators Say Fracking Air Pollution Is Poisoning Families in Texas
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
EPA Proposes Rules for New Power Plants; Fight Over Coal's Carbon Pollution Heats Up
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
How Verizon's Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Rules Could Silence Minority Voices
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
In Depth: How Soft Is the Obama Administration Really Going on Marijuana?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Eco-Groups Challenge Obama Administration Over GMO Farming in National Wildlife Refuges
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Community Radio Movement Prepares for Liftoff
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Lawsuit Challenges IRS to Crack Down on Dark Money Groups Like Rove's Crossroads GPS
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Offshore Fracking Uproar Grows in California In Wake of Truthout Report
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
California Lawmakers Demand Federal Investigation of Offshore Fracking
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Life at Louisiana's Toxic Sinkhole: An Eco-Disaster Continues With No End in Sight
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Watchdogs: Regulators Fail to Enforce Pipeline Safety Despite Spills and Deadly Accidents
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Internal EPA Presentation Reveals Dispute Over Fracking Contamination in Dimock Wells
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Telecom Companies Implicated in NSA Spying Unite to Lobby Congress on Digital Privacy
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | News
Watchdogs: Contractor on Keystone XL Review Lied About Conflict of Interest With TransCanada
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
A Culture of Abuse: Why Some Immigrant Rights Advocates Oppose the Senate's Reform Package
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Why Big Coal and the Anti-Frackers Are Up in Arms Over Obama's Climate Plan
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA, Restores Gay Marriage Equality in California
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Supreme Court on Gay Marriage Next Week: Here's What Could Happen
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Voter ID Law as Voting Rights Battles Continue
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Don't Call Me Illegal: An Interview With Youth Immigrant Activist Tania Unzueta
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Interview
Senate Begins Debate on Immigration Reform Bill
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Will Ohio Be Fracking's Radioactive Dumping Ground?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Hundreds Protest Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees in North Carolina
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Resistance in Ohio, Fracking's Dumping Ground
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Why Can't EPA Tighten Safety Regulations at Chemical Facilities Like West Fertilizer?
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
The Mines that Fracking Built, Part Two
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
Truthout's Fracking Road Trip
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Special Feature