Kory Johnson

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Who is Kory Johnson?

Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from Arizona.

In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by Children for a Safe Environment to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area. In 1996 she joined Greenpeace and helped organize protests against trainloads of DDT-contaminated dirt into Arizona.

She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998, for her efforts against toxic and nuclear contamination.

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on July 23, 2013

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