SAN FRANCISCO -- A West Virginia woman who says her life has been threatened for her work fighting coal-mining problems in Appalachia is among this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, the green world's equivalent of the Oscars.

The Goldmans, now in their 20th year, are being presented to seven activists at a ceremony in San Francisco on Monday. The prizes are sponsored by a foundation headed by San Francisco philanthropist Richard Goldman, who started the awards in 1990 with his late wife Rhoda as a way to honor...