Dive Into Democracy
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Act now to speak up for nonprofits!
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
Waterkeepers haul tires out of streams. We work to ensure toxic coal ash doesn’t flood the rivers near your home. We take school children who’ve never...
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Tell Congress – It’s High Time to Break Free from Plastic
- By: Chris Wilke
- Clean Water Defense | News
The world is choking on plastic. We have seen the horrifying images of whales and seabirds dying of starvation with bellies full of plastic. Of sea turtles...
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We Can’t Turn Our Backs on the Birds
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Whether it’s identifying the birds visiting a feeder outside a window, watching ducks float along a city park pond, or spotting a glimpse of an eagle...
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It’s An Election Year — Time to Check Your Voter Registration!
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance launched Dive Into Democracy in March 2017 to spur public engagement on clean water issues. We’ve used this as a forum to call attention...
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Undermining a Fundamental Law
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Since 1970 the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been a vital tool for the public to ensure that decisions made by federal agencies that impact...
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Tell EPA: Stop Bailing Out Big Coal!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Not only is the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to allow coal-burning power plants to release more coal ash toxins into our...
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A Pivotal Year For Clean Water
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
In 2019 we saw monumental attacks on federal clean water protections. The Trump administration is advancing plans to eliminate Clean Water Act protections...
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No More Coal Ash Toxics in Our Waters!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
For decades, coal-fired power plants have profited from being allowed to dump unlimited amounts of toxic coal ash pollutants into our waterways, pushing...
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Sign the petition: Denounce Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Climate change is a global threat and the Trump administration dangerously continues to deny the issue. In 2017, Trump announced he was pulling the United...
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We deserve a voice on our public lands!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Public lands are required to be managed by the federal government to benefit the United States public as a whole, ideally in a way that protects those...
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Tell EPA Administrator Wheeler: We Need a Strong Clean Water Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Tell EPA Administrator Wheeler to stand up for a strong Clean Water Act Forty-seven years ago on October 18, 1972, the Clean Water Act was signed into...
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Stop EPA’s Latest Assault on Our Health and Our Planet: Oppose Weakening of EPA’s Methane Rule
- By: Kate Hudson
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Responding to pressure from the White House and the fossil fuel industry, EPA is putting protection of our health and our planet on the chopping block...
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Tell EPA: Let states protect their waterways!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Trump administration claims to be all about giving states greater freedom and responsibility. However, the administration suddenly sings a very different...
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Our Waterways Aren’t Sewers – Let’s Stop Treating Them That Way
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
For hundreds of years, our waterways were disposal sites for garbage and human waste, leading to devastating impacts on U.S. waters. The Clean Water Act...
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Stop the Spread of Coal Ash Contamination!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Trump administration’s weakening of public protections from coal pollution is not saving the dying coal industry and has done nothing to help struggling...
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Tell your Governor – Protect our state’s waters!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Trump administration is implementing a dangerous effort to eliminate national protections for waters—and communities—across the country. The U.S....
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Call for our Coasts and Climate
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In early 2018, the Trump administration announced plans to expand the areas open to offshore drilling. These plans would increase drilling in the Gulf...
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Stop Senator Inhofe’s Misuse of Military Spending Bill
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma is using his position as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and the military funding process to...
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Put an End to Oregon’s Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitter
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
For over a decade, communities and groups like Rogue Riverkeeper in Oregon have been fighting a proposal for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility...
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Stop A Massive Clean Water Act Loophole!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
A year ago, we warned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was considering creating a massive loophole in the Clean Water Act. EPA is now...
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Tell Congress to invest in true green infrastructure
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The floods that sloshed through the Midwest, Texas, and the Great Plains earlier this month were a reminder that climate change, urban sprawl, and wetland...
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Save Alaskan Salmon: Say No to Pebble Mine
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: The deadline to comment has been extended to July 1, 2019. Waterkeeper Alliance has its roots in fishermen banding together fighting to protect...
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LAST CALL! The Clean Water Act Depends on You
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: The Trump administration denied our request to extend the WOTUS comment period, giving us only 60 days to express our fierce opposition to this...
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Speak up now to save Clean Water Act protections!
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The last chance to comment on a Trump administration proposal that would gut the Clean Water Act is April 15. The proposal, which has no basis in science,...
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Tell EPA: Keep Mercury Limits Strong
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Thanks to air emissions standards created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act in 2011, important progress in reducing...
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Act Now – Don’t Let Trump Give Our Public Lands to Big Oil’s Bernhardt
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: A Senate vote to confirm David Bernhardt for Secretary of Interior could happen as soon as Wednesday, April 10 or Thursday, April 11. ACT NOW and...
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We Can’t Afford to Lose the Clean Water Act
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
In 1972, waterways in the United States were severely polluted and dangerous. Rivers caught on fire, communities were sickened, and wildlife disappeared....
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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...
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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...
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Tell CEQ: Don’t Rush Environmental Review!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a monumental law passed in 1970 which requires agencies to research the potential environmental impacts...