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EPA Must Use the Clean Water Act to Regulate Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
America’s food systems are today dominated by a handful of multinational corporations that employ industrialized methods to produce most of the meat...
Tell Congress to Pass the Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
A family of dangerous emerging contaminants, PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, poses a serious risk to human health and the wellbeing of our...
Tell Congress to Reject Manchin’s ‘Dirty Deal’ to Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In exchange for his vote to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act last month, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has demanded a vote on a second bill...
Tell EPA: It’s Time to Adopt National Numeric Nutrient Limits on Water Pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
American waterways have a major nutrient pollution problem. Uncontrolled discharges of nitrogen and phosphorus are overwhelming waterways with more than...
Help The Bahamas Say NO to Offshore Oil Drilling – Once And For All
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Bahamas could send a message to the world – by banning oil drilling now. As Planet Earth spirals toward climate catastrophe, the math is clear:...
Tell EPA to Fully Restore State, Tribal, and Community Rights Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Clean Water Act is the nation’s most effective tool to protect American waterways. An essential component of the Clean Water Act, Section 401, gives...
Support D.C. Statehood!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The long overdue Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which passed in the House of Representatives last year, would finally extend Congressional representation...
Congress Must Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced last year in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This bill represents...
EPA Must Confront Largest Unaddressed Source of Water Pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Nonpoint source pollution is the largest unaddressed source of water pollution in the country. This type of contamination typically happens when rain and...
Help Ensure All Communities Have Clean Water Act Protections!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing new Financial Capabilities Assessment guidance for establishing a community’s ability to...
Help Keep Mercury Out of Our Waters!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rule reaffirming that enforcing Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) from power plants...
Fully Restore Clean Water Act Protections for All Waters of the United States
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Clean Water Act is intended to ensure our waters are safe for swimming, drinking, fishing, and other uses. However, the law cannot achieve these goals...
Help Us Strengthen and Expand Federal Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Recently, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reaffirmed what many of us already know: climate change is accelerating and...
Week of Action: Transition to a More Sustainable and Equitable Food System
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
This action notice is updated from a notice originally shared in September 2020. We require farms and food systems that are resilient, healthy, and fair...
It’s Time to Fully Restore the Cornerstone of Environmental Law
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed in 1970, requires federal agencies to assess any significant environmental impacts a federal action...
Help Keep Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Out of Our Water
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
One of the most dangerous and persistent threats to our nation’s waters is the group of emerging contaminants known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
Help Ensure All Americans Have Safe Drinking Water
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Reliably clean and safe drinking water is something most people expect as a given. That trust was earned through protections like those afforded under...
We Must Urgently Restore Clean Water Protections
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
In 2020, the Trump administration issued an unprecedented new regulation that dramatically eliminated federal Clean Water Act protections for rivers,...
Plastic Free July: Thinking beyond litter, landfills, and recycling rates
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Plastic Free July is a global movement for cleaner streets, oceans, and communities. Waterkeeper Alliance salutes our partners and all those fighting back...
Support the Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act is proposed legislation from Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative A. Donald McEachin (VA-04)....
Restore Section 401 to the Clean Water Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
A controversial 2020 regulation promulgated by the Trump EPA dramatically diminished state and tribal authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act....
This World Oceans Day, Pledge to #DefendTheDeep
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
When the crew of Apollo 17 took their famous photograph of Earth in 1972 on the last crewed lunar mission, what was suddenly and dramatically clear...
Support the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced on March 26 by Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) and Representative Alan Lowenthal (CA) into both the...
Deadline Looming for Public Comments on Disney’s Controversial Cruise Port in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
The Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign is urging the public in The Bahamas and across the world to submit comments on Disney’s...
Tell Biden: It’s time to put clean water and a healthy environment front and center
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
With the Biden administration set to assume power next month, we’re strategizing what the next four years will mean for our movement to protect clean...
This Holiday Season, Buy Locally from Sustainable Farmers
- By: Broad Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By David Caldwell, Broad Riverkeeper with MountainTrue. Originally published by MountainTrue. Photos by Colfax Creek Farm. As we approach the holiday season,...
Count Every Vote
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
We’re in the midst of an historic election season. As many as 160 million Americans are expected to vote this year; some are predicting voter turnout...
Act Now: Our Toxic Coal Ash Legacy
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Coal-fired power plants are by far the single largest contributor of toxic pollutants such as arsenic, cadmium, and lead to waterways across the United...
A Win for the Marañón River? Enel asks Peruvian Government to terminate dam contract
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Future of Critical Amazon River Tributary Still in Danger A global energy company with a concession to build a dam on the Marañón River, a major tributary...
Show your appreciation for environmentally conscious farmers
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
A lot of folks in North Carolina produce meat. The state ranks second nationally in pork production and is among the nation’s leaders in poultry production....