Diane Wilson, a 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, won a landmark case against Formosa Plastics in 2019 for illegal dumping of toxic waste on Texas' gulf coast.
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‘Like a Rolling Cannonball to Hell’
Diane Wilson, a 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, spoke with Sojourners’ associate news editor Mitchell Atencio.
I'M A FOURTH-GENERATION FISHERWOMAN. In 1989, I was working in Froggy’s Shrimp Company as one of the only woman fish house managers. A shrimper came in the office and pitched a [newspaper] article on the desk. It was the first time the toxic release inventory ever was made public. It was part of the Community Right-to-Know Act. Calhoun County is a small, rural county, but we were number one in the nation for toxic disposal.