Texas Gulf Coast Defender Wins 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize
Grassroots activists who took on British mining giants and a serial plastics polluter are among the six 2023 Goldman prize winners. The winners include Diane Wilson, who won a landmark lawsuit against Formosa Plastics for dumping vast quantities of toxic plastic waste on the Texas Gulf coast, and Chilekwa Mumba, who helped change UK law after the supreme court in London ruled that the British mining company Vedanta Resources could be tried in the UK court system. Other winners include Indigenous women from Indonesia and Brazil who overcame powerful corporations and deep-seated misogyny in their communities to safeguard large swathes of two of the world’s largest rainforests.