News & Updates
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Push to Slash Protections for Waterways, Wetlands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging two regulations that weaken Clean Water Act protections for rivers, streams, wetlands, and other...
Sperry Partners with Waterkeeper Alliance in Ongoing Effort to Support Global Sustainable Water Program
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Sperry, the American footwear and lifestyle brand, announces today its ongoing partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance in support of a multi-faceted water...
HSBC Makes $250,000 Grant to Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and HSBC today announced a $250,000 grant that will support the Waterkeeper Alliance mission of keeping critical local waterways clean...
Don’t let Congress lock the public out of the courts!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Our Founding Fathers created three branches of government as a system of checks and balances. Waterkeeper Alliance and U.S. Waterkeeper groups often turn...
Widespread Fraud Uncovered in North Carolina Hog Industry
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
An investigation by two state agencies revealed efforts to cook the books and mislead regulators about the content of 55 waste lagoons at 35 hog operations...
North Carolina Water Sampling Reveals High Bacteria Levels near Industrial Animal Farms
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
In North Carolina, we love our waters. And as the summer heat approaches, many of us look forward to a dip in the local swimming hole, a paddling adventure,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Announces 8th Annual SPLASH Event Series, Presented Nationally by Toyota
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Thousands of Americans celebrate the importance of clean water by getting out on their local waterways to swim, paddle, race, fish, and make a SPLASH!...
Tell Us Your Pollution Story
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Over the past year and a half, we have seen an unprecedented number of attacks on public protections from both the Trump Administration and some members...
Scott Pruitt: Get Smart
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Maxwell Smart and Scott Pruitt share two things in common: bumbling ineptitude and a love of top-secret phones, albeit a shoe phone in Mr. Smart’s case....
Proposed Allen Permit Fails to Protect Catawba River from Coal Ash
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The draft water pollution permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality for Duke Energy’s Allen plant on the Catawba River...
Cook Inletkeeper: On the front lines of climate change and not backing down
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
My son and I will soon board a ferry in Washington State and travel north through the fabled Inside Passage into the great wilderness that is Alaska. Glacial...
Relentless in the Pursuit of Poisoning our Waterways | Dive Into Democracy
- 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. In National...
EPA wants to create a massive Clean Water Act loophole | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Imagine this scenario: a company releases pollutants from a pipe a few feet short of a waterway. The pollutants do not directly discharge into the waterway,...
China enlists local groups in environmental enforcement push
- By: Paul Gallay
- News
By Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay, reposted with permission from Riverkeeper Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Invited to Share US Experience On October...
With Groundbreaking Title VI Settlement Signed, North Carolina Environmental Justice Organizations Vow to Continue Their Fight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental justice groups announced today that they reached a settlement agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental...
A bridge between homelessness and clean water
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the lack of time to effectively contribute to the wide range of problems we see in the world. The recent 50th anniversary...
An Interview with Peconic Baykeeper Sean O’Neill
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
In the following interview, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer Malaika Elias speaks with Peconic Baykeeper Sean O’Neill to discuss the adverse effects...
Waterkeeper Alliance Urges Congress to Pressure Trump to Remove and Replace Scott Pruitt
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates across U.S. join effort Waterkeeper Alliance and 94 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates across the United...
EPA needs a leader — not Scott Pruitt | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Today, Waterkeeper Alliance and nearly 100 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to take action to remove...
Waterkeepers Fight Coal Ash Rollbacks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a public hearing in Virginia last week on their proposed revisions to the federal coal ash disposal...
No Government Action to Clean Up Sunken Coal Barge in Sundarbans
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
At 3:00 AM on April 15, the MV Bilash, a large bulk cargo vessel carrying 775 metric tonnes of coal, sank in the Pashur River watershed near Harbaria Point,...
Pipeline construction races forward in the Atchafalaya Basin ahead of hearing
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Bayou Bridge pipeline causes further irreparable harm during peak crawfish season HOUSTON – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
New York Supreme Court strikes down Department of Environmental Conservation’s permit for mega-dairies
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Illegal permit allowed industrial animal operations to prepare pollution prevention plans without agency oversight or public input, threatening drinking...
Don’t Let CAFOs Hide Their Pollution | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
A few weeks ago, the Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing on the “Agriculture Creates Real Employment (ACRE) Act” (S....
Environmental groups challenge NYS permit for industrial stormwater pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Riverkeeper say DEC permit violates NY Conservation Law and the Clean Water Act. Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance filed suit...
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Plot to Stay Relevant is Made of Plastic
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Co-written by Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal Because consumers are clamoring for clean energy options, which are increasingly competitive with fossil fuels,...
Energy Transfer and Sunoco Pipelines Have Leaked Every Eleven Days on Average
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Energy Transfer Partners, its subsidiaries including Sunoco, and joint ventures reported 527 hazardous liquids pipeline incidents to federal regulators...
Plastic is Poisoning Our Planet | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Plastic is poisoning our planet, but there are actions you can take to reduce your impact Earth Day is on April 22 and this year’s theme is “End Plastic...
It’s Time for Pruitt to Go | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
From the second that President Trump nominated Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Waterkeeper Alliance warned...
Help Nepal’s Karnali River Flow
- By: Karnali River Waterkeeper
- News
The Karnali River is an ancient stream and the last free-flowing river of Nepal, but the main stem of the Karnali is at risk of losing its cultural, economic,...