Monday, April 23, 2018

Flint activist and stay-at-home mom wins the Goldman Environmental Prize

A stay-at-home mom of four children just won an award often described as the Nobel Prize for the environment. LeeAnne Walters earned the prize for her work leading a citizens' movement to test tap water in Flint, Michigan to help expose the water crisis — revealing lead levels in water higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's safety threshold in one in six homes. Related:

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/flint-activist-and-stay-at-home-mom-wins-the-goldman-environmental-prize
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