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""A stunning achievement.""—MOLLY IVINS In 1989, an EPA study revealed that Calhoun County, on Texas’s Gulf Coast, was the most polluted place in the United States. Even before the report came out, Diane Wilson knew that the fish were hurting, and so were the people who caught them for a living. Most people were willing to overlook the problem. Wilson was not. Facing crooked politicians, corporate lawyers, and vengeful neighbors, she set out to save both her town and her way of life.

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DIANE WILSON has been an activist since 1989, staging actions from Washington to Austin. A fourth-generation fisherwoman and mother of five, she helped found CodePink: Women for Peace, and she continues to lead the fight for environmental justice. She lives in Texas.

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