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Honoring Environmental Heroes in 2025

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Andrea Vidaure explains how some neighborhoods have a 12-year shorter life expectancy due to diesel pollution.

This episode features interviews with Goldman Environmental Prize winners, including Andrea Vidaure on fighting air pollution in California's Inland Empire, Lorene Allen on tackling PFAS contamination in New Hampshire, and Carlos Mayo Molina on marine conservation in the Canary Islands. They share personal stories of grassroots activism, health impacts, and policy battles.

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A Goldman Prize-centered climate episode about ordinary people driving local environmental fights.

Climate One frames the Goldman Environmental Prize as a way to look at why some people end up taking on environmental fights that never stay abstract for long.

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Hear how grassroots defenders turn pollution fights into policy pressure.

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