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April 23, 2018

Women Claim 5 of 6 Goldman Environmental Prizes for 2018
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The winners of the 2018 prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize have
been announced, with women claiming five of the six prizes. Among this
year's winners are anti-nuclear activists Liz Mc Daid and Makoma
Lekalakala, who led a successful campaign against South Africa's bid to
purchase as many as 10 nuclear power plants from Russia. In Latin
America, Francia Márquez wins a prize for her campaign against illegal
mining in the Amazon, which led Colombia's government to crack down on
cyanide and mercury pollution. And in the U.S., Lee Anne Walters wins a
Goldman Prize for uncovering the crisis of toxic lead in Flint,
Michigan's water supply, after she commissioned a test of her home's tap
water and found it was so contaminated it qualified as hazardous waste.


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