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Tell EPA: Now is Not the Time to Suspend Enforcement
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a sweeping “discretionary” suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws on March 26 pegged...
Active Fights for Free-Flowing Rivers in the Gulf and South Atlantic
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
On the ground, Waterkeepers have been fighting for free-flowing rivers, dam removals, and restoration solutions that best protect their communities for...
For Time Indoors | More Waterkeeper Content!
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
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...
Waterkeeper Documentaries for Time Indoors
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Our Work Continues
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Waterkeeper Alliance is making plans to continue our important mission-driven work, strengthening and supporting...
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...
The Chehalis at a Crossroads: Plans for a Flood Control Dam Threaten the Headwaters
- By: Twin Harbors Waterkeeper
- News
Story and photos by Lee First with Twin Harbors Waterkeeper The era of dam building is over. In the past 30 years, 1275 dams have been torn down, according...
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...
Tell NC’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board: Waste from Industrial Pork and Poultry Hurts People
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
The nearly 10 billion gallons of waste hogs in North Carolina produce each year taints our clean water, stinks up our fresh air, and hurts our people —...
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...
20 Dams Put Peru’s Heritage at Risk
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Ben Webb and Bruno Monteferri with Marañón River Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email...
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...
Latin American Waterkeepers Tackle Climate Change
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
Leer en español “Climate change is a clear and dire threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. A threat in which the region has had little or no role...
Keep Little River Wild: Waterkeeper Alliance Supports a Wild and Scenic Designation for Alabama’s Little River
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Angie and Bill Shugart have devoted much of their lives to sharing and preserving the beauty of the unique Little River, which flows through the mountains...
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...
Cook Inletkeeper’s Fight Against Climate Change for Wild Alaskan Salmon
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Cook Inletkeeper Bob Shavelson has been fighting climate change in Alaska for twenty years. From melting sea ice and receding glaciers to warming salmon...
Waterkeepers Fighting Climate Change: Eight Projects Making a Difference
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
U.S. Waterkeepers are fighting climate change by working to protect the areas they love best from rising seas, ocean acidification, and fossil fuel industry...
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...
Gulf and South Atlantic Waterkeepers Respond to Federal Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Across the Gulf and South Atlantic regions of the US, Waterkeepers responded to the EPA rollbacks of Clean Water Act protections with creative, informative,...
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...
Just Weeks Left to Stop the Biggest Climate Disaster on the Columbia River
- By: Columbia Riverkeeper
- News
By Kate Murphy, community organizer at Columbia Riverkeeper Meet Dylan Haviv. He’s a 10-year-old climate activist who wants Washington state to stop...
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...
Cleanups: Opportunities for Policy Solutions
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers have made cleanups into an opportunity for face-to-face advocacy on issues such as plastic bag bans and alternative bag fees. The message:...
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...