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

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James High School before being drawn into the fight against heavy industry — and its public health and environmental impacts — in her home town alongside the Mississippi River. This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Lavigne, who founded the community group RISE St.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

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Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. Furthermore, he added, the facility is subject to annual audits by the Railroad Commission, the Texas Department of State Health Services, clients, and other groups, and also “more frequent surprise audits.”

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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.

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Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry

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Whichever update the BLM and BIA choose will have to take account of an array of competing goals. The BLM’s mission is to manage its lands for multiple uses and “to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands.” This is our homeland, and we want to live here for generations going forward,” says Jackson. “So

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