The Goldman Prize

April 19, 2004 12:40 PM

The Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to seven people. Sometimes considered the Nobel prize for the environment, it's given to people from six regions of the world, each winning $125,000. The winners include Margie Richard of Norco, Louisiana, and Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla from Bhopal, India, who have respectively fought two of the world's largest chemical companies for justice following chemical plant leaks in their towns (the Bhopal accident killed 20,000 people.)
posted by homunculus (2 comments total)

my wife is at the reception right now. I will give the mefi nation a full accounting of the victuals.
posted by pejamo at 7:35 PM on April 19, 2004

this is great...and totally fill us in, pejamo.
posted by amberglow at 8:00 PM on April 19, 2004