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

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Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. Lavigne is not the first Goldman prize winner to hail from the notorious “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana.

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Reports: Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Resign Next Month

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Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. from 2004 to 2006, and was a long-time aide and chief of staff for former U.S.

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