The Watering Hole

• Aug 31, 2010 Waterkeepers Comment on Water Quality Rules in North Carolina
  In August, a group of Waterkeepers from North Carolina and Waterkeeper Alliance submitted their second set of comments on the increasingly divisive issue of surface water and ground water monitoring rules for animal feeding operations (AFOs) proposed in North Carolina. The Waterkeepers...
   
• Aug 25, 2010 Good Music, Great Cause: Jack Johnson and Save Our Gulf
  Help Save the Gulf of Mexico and listen to some great music this summer! Musician Jack Johnson is supporting our Gulf Waterkeepers and the Save Our Gulf campaign on the second leg of his To The Sea Tour this summer and fall. Johnson donated $5K to Save Our Gulf and will match...
   
• Aug 13, 2010 Speak Up About Coal Ash Now!   
  Register to testify at an upcoming EPA coal ash hearing, or write a letter explaining your concern.
   
• Aug 12, 2010 All At Once You Make The Difference!   
  Jack Johnson’s To The Sea Tour Supports Save Our Gulf.
   
• Aug 10, 2010 Tell EPA That Coal Ash Waste from Power Plants Is Not the Same as Household Garbage!   
  Watch a video on the dangers of coal ash and act to keep it out of our waters!
   
• Aug 6, 2010 Working to grow the Waterkeeper family!   
  Dr. Fransisco "Paco" Ollervides calls for more Waterkeepers in Midwest.
   
• Jul 27, 2010 A Win for Fish! Court Ruling Paves Way for Cooling-water Intake Rules   
  U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals may lead to regulations that require improvements.
   
• Jul 15, 2010 Lake Erie is in trouble. Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Sandy Bihn knows how to fix it.   
  Watch The Erie Wire's interview with Sandy here.
   
• Jul 12, 2010 Oil Spill Update: New Cap to Contain Oil; Arctic Migrants At Risk; Tar Balls on eBay
   
• Jul 11, 2010 Mental health a growing concern after Gulf spill
  Fears are growing of an increase in stress-related illness and mental health problems from the BP spill.
   
• Jul 8, 2010 News From Your Emerald Coastkeeper
  Here you will find the latest map from Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, an online petition calling for the end of dispersants, and other important Gulf resources.
   
• Jul 7, 2010 Countdown to Failure? America's Energy Future
   
• Jul 7, 2010 Caught Restricting the Press and Public Again, BP Clarifies Policy on Access Limits
   
• Jul 1, 2010 Your Hurricane CreekkeeperAppears on Countdown W/ Keith Olberman
   
• Jun 30, 2010 BP's Smoking Gun and the Manipulation of Oil Prices
   
• Jun 30, 2010 Latest updates and pictures from the BP oil spill
   
• Jun 29, 2010 BP Burning Endangered Turtles?
   
• Jun 28, 2010 Video: The Gulf of Mexico Death Throes
   
• Jun 25, 2010 The Latest on the Oil Spill
  Senator Seeks to Halt Alaska Project; Judge Won’t Stay Lifting of Moratorium; Oil Reaches Mississippi Islands
   
• Jun 25, 2010 New face for BP disaster works Washington
  BP’s new public face, Bob Dudley, was in Washington on Thursday to meet with Obama administration officials to reassure them of the company’s "long-term commitment" to cleaning up and restoring the Gulf Coast.
   
• Jun 24, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: The Animals Most at Risk
   
• Jun 23, 2010 Opposing view on disaster in the Gulf: Send a message
   
• Jun 22, 2010 Lots of sharks, lots of oil seen off Bon Secour
   
• Jun 17, 2010 New Decade Defined by New Crisis
   
• Jun 17, 2010 Gulf oil spill: Congressional hearings begin with attack on BP
   
• Jun 17, 2010 Live Blogging BP’s Hayward on Capitol Hill
   
• Jun 17, 2010 Oil Leaves Bayou Communities in Distress
   
• Jun 14, 2010 Opening the Information Gusher on the Gulf Oil Tragedy
   
• Jun 4, 2010 ABC's Brian Ross: BP withheld images of disaster
  If you are not angry enough about BP and the Obama administration's handling of the oil disaster in the Gulf, take a look at this report by ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross.
   
• Jun 3, 2010 Human Victims of the BP Slick
  Tens of millions of gallons of crude oil, billions of dollars in company money and a criminal investigation into the disaster - but what does the BP oil spill mean for the people living on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico? One of our Observers went to visit the people of Barataria...
   
• Jun 2, 2010 Teva Commits $100,000 To Raise Awareness And Assist In Gulf Clean-up
   
• Jun 1, 2010 BP Oil Disaster Shows Limits of President's Power
   
• Jun 1, 2010 What are we fighting for? A swim drink fish summer with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
   
• May 28, 2010 'Save the Gulf' Facebook page exceeds 50,000 fans
   
• May 28, 2010 Training classes set for Gulf oil spill volunteers
   
• May 25, 2010 BP Limited Distribution Map Exposed!
   
• May 25, 2010 Oil Soaks La. Shores, Gulf Officially a Fisheries Disaster, BP Keeps Using Dispersants
   
• May 25, 2010 The Federal Government Must Take Charge of the BP Oil Disaster
   
• May 25, 2010 New video: No oil off Alabama shores, but plenty of reminders of Gulf's beauty
   
• May 18, 2010 VIDEO: BP begin siphoning Gulf oil spill
  Energy giant BP has announced the successful tests on a system to siphon oil from the Gulf of Mexico.
   
• May 17, 2010 Artists needed for Baykeeper exhibit
  In June, the Mobile Arts Council will host an exhibition and silent auction of works in the Green Room to benefit Mobile Baykeeper.
   
• May 17, 2010 Businesses find way to help: Feeding Gulf oil spill volunteers
   
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  May 13, 2010 Blast Survivors Kept Isolated On Gulf For Hours
  In the aftermath of last month's explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, all the survivors wanted to do was get to dry land and call their loved ones. Yet for more than 24 hours, they were told to stay on ships on the water.
   
• May 11, 2010 Bayou Fisherman: Oil Execs
  Fisherman Mike Roberts is angry. “Osama bin Laden couldn’t have done a better job of destroying a part of the American economy". By Jon Bowermaster.
   
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  Apr 20, 2010 NOT IN OUR BACK YARD
  Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Baykeeper describes the dangers of coal ash.
   
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  Apr 16, 2010 Times & Transcript: Suzuki praises causeway move
   
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  Apr 15, 2010 Final Blog: Waterkeepers in China
  After Beijing we flew to Xiangfan, in the middle of China, and spent two days trying to keep up with the amazing 70 year old force of nature otherwise known as the Middle Han Waterkeeper, Yun Jianli. She can call the radio and announce a river cleanup one day and 1000 people will show up...
   
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  Apr 13, 2010 Photo Blog: Waterkeepers in China   
  Waterkeeper Field Coordinator, Stephanie, and the Cook Inletkeeper Bob Shavelson, went to China last week to meet with the Middle Han Waterkeeper.
   
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  Apr 12, 2010 Podcast: Can the US Afford to Get Rid of Coal? Can It Afford Not To?
  Listen to our Dir. of Global Advocacy on To the Point.
   
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  Feb 24, 2010 Coal, Lies and Video Tape   
  Win $5,000! Feb. 24, 2010 is the first anniversary of The Dirty Lie and we're celebrating with a video contest. The Dirty Lie presents: Coal, Lies and Video Tape! Click here to find out more!
   
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  Feb 17, 2010 Chase & MTR: It’s What Matters
  Join the social media day of action on Thursday February 18, 2010 to tell Chase to invest their money in safe, renewable energy not dirty, deadly coal. Watch how big banks turn your deposits and purchases into dirty investments.
   
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  Feb 16, 2010 Vote for Waterkeeper Alliance
  Waterkeeper Alliance is vying for one of three spots on the Cause World phone app and you get to decide! Please go to blog.causeworld.com and vote!
   
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  Feb 10, 2010 Ohio Aims to Transfer NPDES to Dept. of Agriculture
  The state of Ohio has embarked on a course to neutralize its obligations under the Clean Water Act program for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) by requesting that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency transfer its permitting authority from the Ohio EPA (OEPA) to the state’s...
   
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  Feb 5, 2010 The Forum on the Future of Energy
  Check out all the post debate action-watch the full debate, view a slide show, and read all the press about the Forum on the Future of Energy.
   
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  Feb 5, 2010 The Carnival of Destruction
  More than a hundred supporters showed up outside JPMorgan Chase to tell the bank’s CEO Jamie Dimon that he is destroying our country and people’s lives by funding mountaintop removal coal mining. The ringmaster, contortionist, hula hoopers and marching band set the carnival tone,while...
   
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  Nov 5, 2009 Photo Blog: Poultry CAFOs
  From left to right: Choptank Riverkeeper, Drew Koslow, Assateague Coastkeeper, Kathy Phillips, and Waterkeeper Emeritus, Rick Dove Dove and Waterkeeper Alliance Staff Attorney, Liane Curtis, flew over the Chesepeake Bay in pursuit of chicken manure. Dove, Curtis, and Lighthawk...
   
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  Oct 27, 2009 Gloria Reuben to Jamie Dimon: Stop Funding Coal
  Waterkeeper Alli ance Board of Trustees Vice Chair Gloria Reuben sent a letter to JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon urging him to stop bankrolling the coal industry, especially mountaintop-removal mining. Check out the letter below and blogs heartfelt blogs on her website and in The...
   
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  Oct 15, 2009 Climate Change and Coal
  Coal mining is notorious for trapping miners and causing black lung, but that isn’t why Jim Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, calls coal-fired power plants “death factories” and urges world leaders to close them. Climate change threatens the world’s water...