Diane Wilson took on Formosa Plastics and won a $50m settlement to help clean up decades worth of toxic plastic waste
for dumping vast quantities of toxic plastic waste on the Texas Gulf coast.
“The system is totally broken, there was no enforcement by our industry-friendly politicians while the company destroyed our fishing communities and the ecosystem.
Chilekwa Mumba worked closely with villagers throughout the protracted legal battle during which he was publicly criticised and harassed for his activism. The villagers claimed their crops, livestock and only drinking water source were for years poisoned by pollution from a massive open-pit copper mine, and in 2021 Vedanta settled the claim without admission of liability.
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