# Kory Johnson

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{{short description|American environmentalist from Arizona}}
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'''Kory Johnson''' is an American environmentalist from [Arizona](/source/Arizona).

In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by [Children for a Safe Environment](/source/Children_for_a_Safe_Environment) to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area.  In 1996 she joined [Greenpeace](/source/Greenpeace) and helped organize protests against trainloads of [DDT](/source/DDT)-contaminated dirt into Arizona.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aIDw-iYghioC&dq=%22Kory+Johnson%22+goldman&pg=PA144  Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001], p. 144.</ref>

She was awarded the [Goldman Environmental Prize](/source/Goldman_Environmental_Prize) in 1998,<ref name="goldman">{{cite web|url=http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/114
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|url-status= dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306012625/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/114 |archivedate= March 6, 2012 }}</ref> for her efforts against toxic and [nuclear contamination](/source/radioactive_contamination).

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