Rosa Hilda Ramos is the second Puerto Rican recipient of the

Goldman Environmental Prize The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are named from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, an ...

, a prestigious award given to grassroots environmentalists from around the world and popularly known as the "Green Nobel prize".ADENDI
/ref> A housewife and environmental activist based in her hometown

Cataño, Puerto Rico Cataño () is a Cataño barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico. It is west of the capital San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, east of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Toa Baja, nor ...

, Ramos received the award for helping save the Las Cucharillas mangrove from development. She also successfully battled the area's main air polluter—the government-owned

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA; Spanish: ''AEE'') is an electric power company owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico responsible for electricity generation, power distribution, and power transmission on the island. PREPA was ...

(PREPA)-- forcing the public utility to dramatically reduce the lever of pollutants discharged into the atmosphere and forcing it to pay a $7 million federal fine. The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize, which includes a $150,000 monetary grant, was awarded to seven recipients in

San Francisco, California San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

on April 14, 2008.

References

Goldman Environmental Prize

Wall Street Journal

Ode magazine

TreeHugger.com (interview)
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