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Urgent Action: Put an End to Pebble Mine!
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- Clean Water Defense | News
We have one last chance to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, its world-renowned salmon runs, and its Native communities. Take action today to...
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Funding Hydropower Projects will Not Fight Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
There is a new significant threat to our free flowing rivers and our climate: the promotion of hydropower under the guise that it is clean, renewable energy...
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Eagle-Eye View: Innovative applications for river protection
- By: Gan River Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Dan Liu, Gan River Waterkeeper Gan River Waterkeeper is in constant pursuit of innovation. Traveling 550 miles, the Gan River is the longest river in...
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Amazon Waterway: New risks for the river guardians under the pandemic
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Liliana García & Verónica Portugal, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) Photos by Rolando Mondragón/DAR Deep in the Amazon, the people...
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Conservationists Intervene To Oppose New Dam Project Near The Grand Canyon
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
New hydropower project would harm Little Colorado River and endangered species A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion to intervene today to...
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Accenture Announces U.S. Innovation Challenge Winner
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
University of Virginia team wins with an innovative project to fight plastic pollution in waterways A team of undergraduate students from the University...
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New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañón River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer...
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Sign the petition: Support the Climate Action Plan
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
We can’t wait another second to address climate change! Climate change is the largest and most imminent global threat facing us today. And yet, Trump...
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Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice in its...
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In it for the Long Haul: Saluting Waterkeeper Heroes
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
In a world where so much seems to be measured in dollars and cents, (or Euros or Kenyan Shillings or Peruvian Sols), we quantify our work differently. ...
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Angels in the Courtroom
- By: Min Zheng
- Clean Water Defense | News
To celebrate the first anniversary of its historic legal victory against a tannery operation that had been illegally dumping its sludge in nearby farmlands,...
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The Yarra: A Journey Towards Ecological Restoration
- By: Yarra Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper A federal grant was recently awarded to the Yarra Riverkeeper Association to begin the process of rewilding the Yarra...
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Peru’s planned dams would displace 1,000 and “decapitate” the Amazon
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Photos by Ben Webb Twenty hydroelectric dams are planned for Peru’s Marañón River, the primary tributary to the Amazon; two have been approved. These...
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Tell your Members of Congress: Pass a “clean” budget!
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Clean Water Defense | News
As Congress prepares to negotiate budget appropriations amid the COVID-19 pandemic and long overdue demands for racial justice, we must ensure that our...
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Three Simple Things You Can Do to #KickOutPlastic
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
As an environmental organization, we must continue being vocal in the fight against racism, for environmentalism and social justice go hand in hand. Race...
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3 Signs of Progress for Rondout Creek
- By: Hudson Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Rondout Creek is a major tributary of the Hudson River, and improving the creek’s water quality has been a focus of Hudson Riverkeeper for several...
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Sign and send the petition to the U.S. Senate: We must have funding for Vote by Mail
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The coronavirus pandemic is deeply impacting our elections, as states move to protect voters’ health during this crisis. We are less than six months...
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Lawsuit Launched Targeting Trump Administration’s Suspension of Pollution Monitoring
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
EPA Allows Unchecked Pollution Without Considering Potential Impacts to Imperiled Species Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the...
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Tell the Senate: Take action on dangerous “Forever Chemicals”
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Anna Maria Stebbins, Advocacy Legal Intern The Senate has the chance to pass an important bill that would require the United States Environmental Protection...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Rollback of Clean Water Act Section 401
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized damaging changes to its state water quality certification regulations under Section 401 of the...
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Waterkeeper Groups Achieve Settlement with EPA on Drinking Water Safety
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeepers Chesapeake, and California Coastkeeper Alliance today filed a settlement agreement in federal court with the U.S. Environmental...
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Environmental Rollbacks Won’t Revive the Economy
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
Re: The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List, The New York Times When Richard Nixon vetoed the Clean Water...
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Creatively Adapting: Waterkeepers Encourage Solo Cleanups
- By: Malaika Elias
- Clean Water Defense | News
As we settle into this new COVID-19 reality, Waterkeepers across the movement are finding creative ways to engage their communities and create opportunities...
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Take Action: Protect Okefenokee Swamp from a Titanium Mine
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Today, you can use your voice to help protect a beautiful blackwater swamp in southern Georgia and the surrounding community from the risk of dangerous...
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Gathering together for Earth Day, if only online, is more important than ever
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
When the first Earth Day was celebrated 50 years ago, campuses around the country were erupting in protest over the Vietnam War. Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles,...
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Lawsuit Launched Challenging Feds’ Failure to Fully Assess Harms of Lake Okeechobee Toxic Releases to Protected Sea Turtles, Sawfish
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups filed a notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to acknowledge the harms that toxic releases from...
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Tell Congress: Don’t let EPA weaken the Clean Water Act!
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Anna Maria Stebbins, Advocacy Legal Intern Our waterways are in trouble. A new regulation from the United States Environmental Protection Agency will...
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The Source of the Amazon River at Risk Because of Dam Projects
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Bruno Monteferri, the Marañón Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email updates today. Two...
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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...
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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...