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  May 15, 2012 Casco Baykeeper Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award from Bates College
  Bates College’s Harward Center for Community Partnerships recently recognized Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne with the 2012 Bates-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Lifetime Achievement.
   
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  May 15, 2012 Casco Baykeeper Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award from Bates College
  Bates College’s Harward Center for Community Partnerships recently recognized Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne with the 2012 Bates-Morse Mountain Award for Environmental Lifetime Achievement.
   
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  May 1, 2012 Groups Reach Settlement with McKeesport in Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumping Case
  Clean Water Action and Three Rivers Waterkeeper filed in federal district court today a settlement of their case against the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport.
   
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  Apr 9, 2012 West, Rhode Rivers Earn D on Report Card
  A wet spring and hot summer didn't help the rivers in 2011 and resulted in a very low grade, according to the West/Rhode Riverkeeper.
   
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  Mar 28, 2012 Employment Opportunities Now Available at Columbia Riverkeeper
  Columbia Riverkeeper is a successful nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Columbia River watershed.
   
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  Mar 23, 2012 Local Riverkeepers React Against Maryland's Reclassification Of Impaired Local Waterways
  Chesapeake WATERKEEPER® ALLIANCE programs react strongly to Maryland Department of the Environment’s (MDE) use of the Chesapeake Bay (CB) Model in a widespread, proposed reclassification of 139 water segments in 49 watersheds...
   
• Mar 14, 2012 NY/NJ Baykeeper, Riverkeeper, and NRDC reach agreement with NY DEC and NYC DEP on Green Infrastructure for CSO abatement.
  DEC and DEP Announce Groundbreaking Agreement To Reduce Combined Sewer Overflows Using Green Infrastructure in New York City
   
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  Mar 12, 2012 Klamath Riverkeeper Files Notice Of Intent To Sue Montague Water Conservation District
  Today Klamath Riverkeeper (KRK) filed a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue the Montague Water Conservation District (MWCD) for ongoing operation of Dwinnell Dam and associated diversions in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
   
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  Mar 8, 2012 Hackensack Riverkeeper Blasts NJDEP Waiver Rule
  Calls “common sense principles” a recipe for environmental disaster
   
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  Mar 5, 2012 Tennessee RIVERKEEPER Served Notice of Intent to Sue the Operators of Ardmore Waste Water Treatment Plant
  Riverkeeper took this action after discovering 2,024 violations of the Clean Water Act NPDES permit.
   
• Feb 24, 2012 Conservation Group Takes Action to Stop Illegal Discharge of Toxic Chemicals
   
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  Feb 16, 2012 Flowing Springs Run to Benefit From Ox Paperboard Settlement
   
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  Feb 14, 2012 Sally Bethea named one of the ‘Heroes of the New South’
  Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Executive Director and Riverkeeper Sally Bethea was honored by Southern Living magazine as one of its “Heroes of the New South".
   
• Feb 7, 2012 Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export: New Frontier In Energy Wars
  Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export: New Frontier In Energy Wars
   
• Feb 2, 2012 Waterkeeper Organizations File Suit to Plug Taylor Energy’s Gulf Oil Spill and Pry Open the Veil of Secrecy Surrounding 7 Years of Contamination
  Calls on Obama Administration to Require Stronger Safety Standards and More Transparency
   
• Feb 1, 2012 EPA To Provide Nearly $10 Million to Clean Up Beaches Across the Nation
  The agency launches improved website for beach advisories and closures
   
• Feb 1, 2012 Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and Waterkeeper Alliance Announce The Great Bay-Piscataqua WATERKEEPER®
  Long-Time Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Manager Peter Wellenberger Named WATERKEEPER
   
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  Jan 17, 2012 California Coastkeeper Alliance Announces New Executive Director
  The Board of Directors of California Coastkeeper Alliance (CCKA) has announced that effective January 23, 2012, Michael Murphy takes the lead as the new executive director of the environmental non-profit organization.
   
• Jan 4, 2012 Savannah Riverkeeper estimates over 678 tons of slurry into Reedy creek
  Savannah Riverkeeper Tonya Bonitatibus continued her third day assessment of the kaolin spill on Reedy Creek.
   
• Nov 23, 2011 Waterkeepers Chesapeake Speak Out On O’Malley Letter to Law School Dean
   
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  Nov 17, 2011 Benefit Concert Set for Those Whose Health Has Been Adversely Affected by the 2010 BP Deep Water Oil Spill
  The event, which will take place from 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Maison, 508 Frenchman St in New Orleans, will raise funds to address the issue on behalf of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN).
   
• Oct 27, 2011 Tennessee Riverkeeper Files Lawsuit Over Pollution into Lake Guntersville at Gunters Landing Lagoon
  Non-profit Tennessee Riverkeeper recently filed a lawsuit against Jimmy Kennamer, the owner of Marshall County Land Company, for 1,077 violations of the Clean Water Act since July 2009 at Gunters Landing Lagoon.
   
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  Oct 10, 2011 Charleton Waterkeeper Announces SPLASH Event
  All are invited to attend the amusements scheduled for the the 5th of November between 11 and 4 o’clock at the Colonial Common.