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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Tell Congress: Put a Stop to Toxic Algae | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Our waterways are being smothered and poisoned by toxic, green slime. All around the U.S., runaway algae growth caused by water pollution is threatening...
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....
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...