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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 water quality in the creek has been a focus of Hudson Riverkeeper for several years....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Partners, Sue in Response to Massive Clean Water Act Rollback
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
In case you missed it: Waterkeeper Alliance and eleven U.S. Waterkeeper Organizations, including Lake Worth Waterkeeper, joined last month with several...
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...
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...
Lawsuit Launched Over Trump’s Massive Rollback of Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration today for eliminating longstanding Clean Water Act protections for...
Community Water Science: Labors of Love
- By: Sara Aminzadeh
- Clean Water Defense | News
A huge network of volunteer water quality monitors already exists — including hundreds of Waterkeeper organizations — but their individual efforts...
“Navigable Water Protection Rule” Guarantees Widespread Pollution of our Nation’s Waters
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
Reversing more than 40 years of progress and settled law, on January 23, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps announced a new regulation...
Yadkin Riverkeeper Addresses Misinformation on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Replacement Rule
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Yadkin Riverkeeper. Reposted with permission from Yadkin Riverkeeper. With last week’s release of the new rule changes to the Clean Water Act, there...
Narrow Definition of Waters Covered Under the Clean Water Act Puts All Our Waters at Risk
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Trump administration’s new unscientific, illegal, narrowed definition of waterways protected by the Clean Water Act is a threat to waterways throughout...
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...