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Enviro Heroes: Meet This Year's Prestigious Goldman Prize Winners

Environment News ServiceApril 19, 2010.

Among the grassroots leaders who are taking on some of the most challenging environmental problems is a Michigan family farmer fighting livestock pollution.

Goldman Prize Names World's Most Amazing Grassroots Environmental Leaders

Environment News ServiceApril 22, 2009.

These leaders have fought against mining companies, logging development, toxic dumping, and government indifference to tribal rights.

Maria 'Mother' Gunnoe: Mountaintop Removal Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman "Environmental Nobel" Prize

Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. April 20, 2009.

The West Virginia and Cherokee native has been one of the most vocal advocates for justice in the Appalachian coalfields.

Goldman Prize Winner Saves One of the World's Most Important Drinking Sources

Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor. April 16, 2008.

How one activist took on President Putin and oil interests to save 20 percent of thew world's freshwater reserve.