News & Updates
Waterkeepers Document Devastation: Florence in Photos
- By: Lindsey Muzzio
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Waterkeeper groups in the Carolinas documented the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Florence. As soon as it was safe to do,...
Waterkeeper responds to the threat of another coal ash pond failure in the wake of Hurricane Florence
- By: Donna Lisenby
- News
Santee Cooper’s Proactive Remediation May Prevent the Severe Contamination Seen at Duke Energy Plants in North Carolina CONWAY, S.C.—Waterkeeper Alliance...
ACE: Assisting Coal Enterprises?
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
The deaths, flooding, water contamination, and infrastructure destruction caused by Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut are stark reminders that our...
A Fish Kill on Greenfield Lake
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
For more than a century, Greenfield Lake has been a popular recreation destination just a few miles from historic downtown Wilmington, NC. The 75-acre...
Waterkeeper Calls for Stricter Coal Ash Storage Regulations in the Wake of North Carolina Spills
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
As the massive coal ash spill at Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton Power Plant contaminates the still-rising Cape Fear River, Waterkeeper Alliance is calling...
In Florence’s Wake, More South Carolina Dams Fail
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has confirmed that eleven dams have failed in the state this week in the wake of Hurricane...
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Statement on Sutton Coal Ash Spill
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Following a coal ash spill at Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton Power Plant, Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette assessed the area by motorboat on Friday,...
Waterkeepers Identify Multiple CAFO and Coal Ash Spills Following Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Waterkeeper groups across North Carolina have identified multiple releases of pollution from industrial animal operations and...
U.S. insurance companies targeted for risk
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
Amid the bustle of the Global Climate Action Summit last week in San Francisco, and while Waterkeeper Organizations were scrambling to prepare for Hurricane...
Mapping Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
With rivers still rising in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, Catawba Riverkeeper Sam Perkins created this story map to give the public a sense of...
Monsters of our own creation
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
On two opposite ends of the world, millions are reeling from the impacts of superstorms—terrifying reminders of our warming planet. In North Carolina,...
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Investigating Sutton Coal Ash Release
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette is investigating a coal ash release of unknown size at Duke Energy’s Sutton Power Plant in Wilmington, NC. The release...
Waterkeeper Alliance responds to Sutton coal ash spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Following Duke Energy’s disclosure of a coal ash release at its L.V. Sutton Power Station outside Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018, Donna Lisenby,...
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Reports “ongoing failure” at Sutton
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette, who is on site at Duke Energy’s Sutton Power Plant investigating breaches at the Sutton coal ash landfill, reports...
Waterkeeper Alliance offering patrol opportunities in Florence impacted areas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Waterkeeper groups in the Carolinas are preparing to document the potentially devastating aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Waterkeepers...
Waterkeeper flyovers provide “before” images of N.C. coal ash ponds and animal waste cesspools
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
As Hurricane Florence threatens North Carolina and the southeastern U.S., Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Waterkeeper groups are actively preparing...
Major consumer, climate groups call on insurance industry to ditch fossil fuels
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
New campaign Insure Our Future to hold US insurers accountable for a role in climate change as first US insurance company to commit not to invest in coal...
Local Leaders Key to Solving Global Climate/Water Crisis
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Climate change means more than heat waves and long summers—it means drought, flooding, food insecurity, geopolitical conflict, warming oceans, sea level...
Oil-Spill Risks from Bayou Bridge Pipeline Highlighted in New Legal Action as Work is Suspended
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
New evidence shows the Army Corps of Engineers failed to independently assess the risk of spills from a company with more than 500 spills, millions in...
Tell Congress: Take Action on Deadly Algal Blooms
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Red tide off Florida has turned beaches into morgues, as scores of dead fish and rotting corpses of marine mammals litter shores. Please call your Representatives...
Energy Transfer Partners PA Explosion Another Example of Poor Pipeline Management
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance points to Energy Transfer Partners’ long history of pipeline accidents Following the early morning explosion today of an Energy...
Waterkeeper Fights to Keep Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeepers challenge industry and Oklahoma AG’s attempts to strip protections from critically important waterways Waterkeeper Alliance, Grand Riverkeeper,...
Keep Poison Out of Our Waterways!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Nearly a decade ago, Waterkeeper Alliance and our partners won an important legal victory that helps keep pesticides from poisoning our waterways. This...
Groups Notify Owners of PA Coal-Fired Power Plant of Intent to Sue Over Pollution in Susquehanna River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Toxic pollutants leaking from coal ash at Brunner Island Power Plant are infiltrating the river, a source of drinking water and popular place for fishing...
Southeast Asia—Doomed by Dams?
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Marc Yaggi and Gaby Segal After the devastating collapse on July 23 of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower installation in Laos’ Attapeu Province,...
Tell the Senate our water systems need an upgrade!
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The U.S. needs to invest an estimated $1 trillion over the next 25 years to keep the country’s drinking water, sewer, and wastewater treatment systems...
Coalition Files ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Against Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation Coalition Sends ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Alleging Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project Violates Endangered Species Act Yesterday, a coalition...
Belize Phasing Out Plastic Bags and Styrofoam Containers
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Arreini Palacio Morgan, Placencia Lagoon Waterkeeper Two hundred million plastic bags are imported annually by a country the size of New Hampshire,...
Court Upholds National Safeguard for Coal Ash: Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Victory: Ruling Casts Doubt on Legality of EPA’s Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Protections The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision...
Stand up for states’ right to protect water quality!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Bill S. 3303 would significantly limit the power of states to deny projects that would have severe environmental impacts on water quality. Please call...