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current activist Goldman prize winners- who protected forests, rainforests, lagoons, air quality, oceans from oil drilling and super-loud seismic testing,.... here is link to winners back to 1989 book Eco-Heroes:Twelve tales of Environmental Victory by Aubrey Wallace, 1993
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Native Australian woman speaks of keeping her spirit up by being "on country" and fighting coal mines. she won the Goldman prize.
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Save the Earth leaders win Goldman prize ( equivalent to Nobel prize)
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Biden and Haaland Save the Wilderness!
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link to jeff biggers salon article support coal river mountain watch
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Trump and EPA head Pruitt just reversed the protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon rivers. Please write your politicians and letters to the editor to protest this. Pruitt is approving a mine that will produce 10 million tons of mining...
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70,000 citizens and the The Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness group pressured the federal governement to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from sulfide mining leases! The denying an extension of the leases. Mining pollutes the lakes and rivers...
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link to examples of polluting mines, Link to group fighting MN mine
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Using native sovereign treaty rights plus educating local people about the threats to water quality, wetlands, fish, wildlife, and rice beds, natives stopped the huge Gogebic Taconite iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Pro-mining forces gave $ 15 million to Gov....
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Proposed nickel-copper-sulfide mines threaten the rivers, Lake Superior, wildlife, and the Chippewa native communities. Over 1,000 acres of wetlands would be destroyed, and the fish and wild rice would be threatened. Also, oppose a land swap of federal national forest...