Six Activists Honored With ‘Environmental Nobel’
April 20, 2009
Six environmental advocates have been awarded the 2009 Goldman Prizes, which honor such efforts worldwide, Reuters reports.
The awards, often referred to as the Nobel Prizes of environmental advocacy, were established in 1990 by the California philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman.
Among this year’s winners are Maria Gunnoe for fighting mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia; Marc Ona Essangui, an African who campaigned against a Chinese firm’s plan to mine iron ore in the Gabon rainforest; and Olga Speranskaya, of the Moscow group Eco-Accord, which works to rid the former Soviet Union of toxic industrial and agricultural waste.
