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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. Humanitarian Enterprise of Loving People) and started learning more about the pollution problems in St. Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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And since 1997 about one million barrels worth of oilfield waste has been brought to Lotus’s disposal site, situated off a dusty desert road located 19 miles west of Andrews, Texas (and just several miles from a massive solar array financed by Facebook and which provides energy to Shell’s fracking operations).

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

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The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild. Where managed plantations meet the rainforest edge - Credit: Michael Holder Young, fresh-faced and 'green'?