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Cancer Alley Activist Sharon Lavigne Among Goldman Environmental Prize Winners for 2021

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This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Lavigne got her start in the environmental movement after attending a school board meeting in 2015, where she met members of a local organization called H.E.L.P. Her parents organized in St. Credit: © Julie Dermansky. ‘It James Parish.

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Luminalt’s Jeanine Cotter: How Solar Loses Without a Diverse Workforce

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For Cotter, this means when Luminalt has an entry-level position to fill, she first goes looking for new hires at community-based organizations, like Asian Neighborhood Design , an architecture and planning nonprofit that provides work training to help disadvantaged individuals become self-sufficient. Luminalt has 23 employees.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

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All four have been roundly panned by government agencies, environmental groups, tribal governments, Native American organizations and the public at large. Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. Bureau of Indian Affairs together released a set of four update possibilities.

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