056 How Fracking Got Banned in New York

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In 2014, American lawyer and activist, Helen Slottje received the largest environmental prize in the world, the Goldman Environmental Prize also known as the Green Nobel. For 10 years, Helen worked tirelessly in the face of fierce opposition from the fossil fuel industry, and colleagues who called her work criminal, to get fracking banned in more than 170 New York communities. She accomplished what others deemed impossible through dogged determination and visionary thinking that enabled her to challenge consensus reality and win.

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Co-founder and the producer of the Sustainability Now podcast, responsible for audio and video production, web development and social media. Scott was Clean Water Action's Philadelphia program director where he stopped a trash incinerator from being built across the street from an elementary school, worked on an ocean dumping ban, the curbside recycling program, workers' right to know about toxic chemicals, integrative pest management, and social justice issues. After a few years building log homes, he has spent the last 20 years as an interactive director and multimedia producer.