Ikal Angelei of Friends of Lake Turkana Wins Prestigious Award For Natural Resource Rights Activism NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish

WASHINGTON, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at a luncheon in the Capitol today to recognize the recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize.

RWI grantee receives 2009 Goldman Prize for unflagging pursuit of government accountability and environmental justice NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Revenue Watch Institute congratulates its grantee and partner Marc Ona, who was announced Monday as the African winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for 2009.

A San Francisco editor and publisher of an online publication that regularly criticizes the lawsuit against Chevron for oil contamination in the Ecuadorian rainforest also works for Chevron's public relations firm, Don Solem & Associates.

Chevron should stop hiding behind its bogus public relations campaign about protecting the environment and start putting its record profits to work by cleaning up the billions of gallons of toxic waste it deliberately dumped into Ecuador's rainforest, causing hundreds of deaths to indigenous peoples, said environmental activist and lawyer Pablo Fajardo in Quito, in response to Chevron's testimony today about soaring oil prices before the U.S.