Overview

• The 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize is being presented today in San Francisco, celebrating seven activists from six countries for their environmental leadership.
• Laurene Allen of New Hampshire led efforts to close a plastics plant leaking PFAS chemicals, influencing the establishment of federal drinking water standards in the U.S.
• Semia Gharbi of Tunisia exposed illegal waste trafficking, resulting in over 40 arrests, the return of 6,000 tons of waste to Italy, and EU policy changes on waste shipping.
• Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, an Indigenous leader from Peru, won legal personhood rights for the Marañón River, ensuring protections against contamination and oil spills.
• Activists Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika secured the creation of Europe’s first wild river national park in Albania, protecting the Vjosa River from hydropower development.