Goldman Environmental Prize Goes to Chinese Dissident

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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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