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....
Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Grows and Urges Disney to Respond to Concerns of 40,000+ Supporters
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Launched on July 15, the Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign has attracted more than 40,000 supporters in just three weeks. Comments...
Lawsuit Launched to Stop Toxic Algae Bloom Releases From Lake Okeechobee
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups sued three federal agencies today for failing to address harm to Florida’s endangered species from Lake Okeechobee releases containing...
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...
Musician Josie Dunne Joins Zappos and Sperry to Support Waterkeeper Alliance and Combat the Ocean Plastics Epidemic
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Sperry, the iconic footwear brand with a heritage of innovation and love for the sea, and Atlantic recording artist Josie Dunne, known for her personal...
On Earth Day, Rep. Huffman Introduces Bill to Clean Up Postal Service Trucks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Representative Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) today introduced the Federal Leadership in Energy Efficient Transportation (FLEET) Act of 2019, legislation...
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...
Trump’s Executive Order Undermines States’ Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
President Trump plans today to sign an executive order that attempts to limit states’ role in approving permits required for oil and gas projects under...
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,...
How the New Trump Rule Would Harm San Francisco Bay
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
San Francisco Bay’s watershed stretches from the granite tips of the Sierra Nevada to the Golden Gate, covering almost 60,000 square miles and nearly...
Interactive Map: How Trump Proposal Endangers Rio Grande Basin
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
A vast sub-basin of the Rio Grande could lose Clean Water Act protections under Trump proposal The headwaters of the Rio Grande, the nation’s third...
The Rio Grande Watershed is at its Ecological Breaking Point. Act to Preserve its Clean Water Act Protection
- By: Rio Grande Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Rio Grande Waterkeeper Jen Pelz The Rio Grande, the third longest river in the U.S., begins as snowmelt in the high peaks of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains,...
Clean Water Act Rollbacks Threaten Upper Potomac Watershed
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Brent Walls, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper, bought a new Hyundai Tucson in 2012, which he mostly uses for work. Since then, he’s put almost 300,000 miles...
20 Years of Water Protection and Counting – Waterkeeper Alliance Targets Clean Water Growth Plan to Protect Waterways Worldwide
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Network of clean water advocates protect more than 2.5 million square miles of waterways across globe to ensure clean drinking water and safe water access...
Clean Water Act Rollbacks Further Expose Greater Houston to Flooding
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
As Houston grows, the city and its suburbs are devouring its wetlands. Building subdivisions on top of wetlands has made the nation’s fourth-largest...
Protect Puget Sound Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Puget Soundkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Chris Wilke, Puget Soundkeeper & Executive Director The waters of Puget Sound aren’t just my profession, or my passion—they are my life. And...
Stand up for Colorado Waters
- By: Boulder Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Boulder Waterkeeper Ted Ross Colorado is one of two headwater states in the United States where all the flowing fresh water originates as precipitation....
Sperry and Waterkeeper Alliance Partner on New Sustainability Initiative
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
To combat the world’s growing ocean plastic epidemic Sperry, the iconic footwear brand with a heritage of innovation and a love for the sea, and...
Defend Missouri’s Maramec Spring Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Maramec Spring is the center of a popular Missouri park, with 1,860 acres of forests and fields, and a well-attended annual Kids’ Fishing Day, where...
Statement of Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Kansas Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels, Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz braved icy roads to testify in...
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...
Act Now to Save Montana’s Big Hole
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Big Hole is movie beautiful, running 155 miles from headwaters in Southwest Montana’s Beaverhead Range down the verdant Big Hole Valley, tumbling...
Suit Filed to Protect Colorado River and Prevent Dam Expansion in Boulder County
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation Coalition Seeks to Halt Denver Water’s Moffat Project A coalition of conservation groups filed suit today in federal district court seeking...
Mapping Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
With rivers still rising in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, Catawba Riverkeeper Sam Perkins created this story map to give the public a sense of...
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...
Waterkeeper Fights to Keep Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeepers challenge industry and Oklahoma AG’s attempts to strip protections from critically important waterways Waterkeeper Alliance, Grand Riverkeeper,...
Coalition Files ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Against Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation Coalition Sends ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Alleging Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project Violates Endangered Species Act Yesterday, a coalition...
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 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...