Goldman Environmental Prize Goes to Chinese Dissident
Betsy Bayha of member station KQED reports on this years winners of the Goldman Environmental prizes. Among the recipients of what’s been called the “Nobel Prize for the Environment” are a Chinese dissident who was sent to jail for opposing plans to build a giant dam on the Yangtze river.
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