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    Environmental activist Diane Wilson is pictured during a 2011 demonstration

    Goldman Prize Goes to Activists Who Scored Huge Victories Over Corporate Polluters

    One Goldman Environmental Prize recipient was Diane Wilson, who won a historic $50 million settlement in a case against Formosa Plastics.

    Jake Johnson
    Apr 24, 2023

    Activists from Zambia, Indonesia, Turkey, Finland, Brazil, and the United States were awarded the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday for fighting destructive mining projects, working to protect imperiled marine ecosystems, shielding Indigenous land from corporate plunder, and holding a powerful plastics company accountable for dumping toxic waste on Texas' Gulf Coast.

    "Now that the world has awakened to acute environmental crises like climate change, fossil fuel extraction, and pollution of our air and water, we are much more aware of our connections to each other and to all life on the planet," said John Goldman, president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation. "A grassroots activist in Malawi working to combat plastic pollution in her own country is directly connected to us, and vice versa; and she has much to teach us about how we can do that work at home, where we live. This work, and our fates, are all intertwined."

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    Cancer Alley Activists Hold DC Funeral March Asking Biden to Declare Climate Emergency

    "People are dying," pleaded RISE St. James leader Sharon Lavigne outside the White House. "This an emergency. If he will not declare this an emergency, we are going to die."

    Brett Wilkins
    Oct 25, 2022

    Environmental justice activists from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" on Monday held a funeral procession in Washington, D.C. to remember victims--overwhelmingly Black people--killed by petrochemical industry pollution and to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and do more to stop deadly fossil fuel projects.

    "President Biden, you are drinking clean water, and we are not. You can plant a garden over here; we cannot, the soil is destroyed."

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    'Victory for Environmental Justice': Review Ordered for Proposed Cancer Alley Plastics Complex

    "I am hopeful that this is the nail in the coffin of Formosa Plastics in St. James Parish," said the head of Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

    Jessica Corbett
    Aug 19, 2021

    Environmental justice and climate campaigners celebrated after a federal official on Wednesday ordered a detailed review of the impacts of a massive Formosa Plastics complex set to be built on over 2,000 acres in an area of Louisiana long known as "Cancer Alley."

    "Today's announcement is the ultimate David v. Goliath victory."
    --Anne Rolfes, Louisiana Bucket Brigade

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