Massive Utah Oil Shale Project Threatens Public Health, Water Supply
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups today formally opposed the Trump administration’s plan to facilitate the first commercial oil shale development in the United States,...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Push to Slash Protections for Waterways, Wetlands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging two regulations that weaken Clean Water Act protections for rivers, streams, wetlands, and other...
Plastic is Poisoning Our Planet | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Plastic is poisoning our planet, but there are actions you can take to reduce your impact Earth Day is on April 22 and this year’s theme is “End Plastic...
Congress sold out rural citizens and their communities | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
On Friday, the President signed into law the fiscal year 2018 spending package, narrowly avoiding another government shutdown. The package does not include...
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered Species From Trump Administration’s Rollback of Clean Water Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing...
Hydropower is NOT Clean Energy: Dams and Reservoirs are Major Drivers of Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
On November 8, 2017, the House of Representatives approved a bill, H.R. 3043, that defines hydropower as a renewable energy source and fast-tracks the...
Groups File Lawsuit to Stop New Diversion and Protect Flows in Colorado River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Suit seeks to halt Windy Gap Firming Project and force alternatives A coalition of environmental groups today filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent...
Bayou City Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Respond to Harvey Devastation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Bayou City Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance are responding to Hurricane Harvey, working to assess the damage the record-breaking storm has brought...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to WOTUS Withdrawal
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
NEW YORK, NY – Continuing its march toward elimination of key Clean Water Act protections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
President Trump’s decision is divorced from reality and puts the United States on the wrong side of history. NEW YORK, NY – President Trump today...
Waterkeeper Alliance Submits Comments Opposing EPA Regulatory Rollbacks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance, along with 121 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates, submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) late...
Environmental Groups to Sue EPA Over Unsafe Waters in New York City
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Lax Oversight Allows City and State to Evade Health Protections, Continue Massive Sewer Overflows NEW YORK, NY — A coalition of New York City and regional...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA Regulatory Reform Process
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today requesting an opportunity to discuss...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
Today, President Trump signed an executive order that will have grave climate impacts. The order rolls back many Obama Administration initiatives to curb...
Trump’s Misrepresentation of WOTUS – And Why It Matters
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
On February 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to begin a series of actions, long sought by industry, that will allow uncontrolled discharges...
As Okla. Attorney General, EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Did Nothing to Protect Oklahomans from Toxic Swine Waste
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense
By Kelly Hunter Foster, Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Attorney, Melanie Benesh, EWG and Wicitra Mahotama, EWG Oklahoma has a dangerous and widespread groundwater...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Scott Pruitt’s Confirmation as EPA Administrator
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the U.S. EPA — an agency he has sued 14 times in the past 6 years to block its...
Senate Democrats to Host Panel Discussion on Pruitt Nomination
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
*MEDIA ADVISORY* Ranking Member Carper, Senate Democrats to Host Panel Discussion on Pruitt Nomination WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the committee hearing...
President Trump’s Pipeline Orders Threaten Public Waters
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Today, President Trump signed presidential memorandums to advance construction of the Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines that will threaten the...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Water Transfers Rule Decision
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance is very disappointed in the Second Circuit’s 2-1 reversal of the summary judgment granted in our favor by the district court,...
Waterkeeper Alliance | 2016 Annual Report
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Thanks to your generous support, Waterkeeper Alliance had a remarkable fiscal year. As of June 30, 2016, Waterkeeper Alliance had 292 Member and Affiliate...
Waterkeeper Alliance Petitions EPA To End Federal Contracts With ExxonMobil
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
Environmental group says U.S. cannot do business with oil company that intentionally misleads Americans about climate change New York, NY — Today,...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speaks At Standing Rock Reservation in Protest of Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance President says pipeline’s inevitable leak will poison drinking water of 18 million STANDING ROCK – Yesterday, to prevent one of...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Launch “The True Cost of Industrial Meat Production” Environmental Justice Video Campaign
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Series captures environmental injustices perpetrated by the pork industry against North Carolina’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — Waterkeeper...
Waterkeeper Alliance Notifies EPA of Intent to Sue to Compel Action on Drinking Water Regulations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Click here to access the full Notice of Intent to Sue. EPA has missed ten Safe Drinking Water Act deadlines for monitoring and regulating strontium,...
Environmental Groups Win National Victory for Clean Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Agreement reached with EPA to adopt stronger standards in management of industrial stormwater pollution NEW YORK, NY – August 17, 2016 – A coalition...
Curing China’s “Cancer Villages”
- By: Min Zheng
- Clean Water Defense
Shadowing Mr. Huo, the Upper Huai River Waterkeeper, also known as the “Huai River Guardian (淮河卫士)” in China, on a typical patrol day was,...
His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, Live to Love International and Waterkeeper Alliance Launch Himalayan Initiative to Protect the Waters of Ladakh and Himalayas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Building a movement to gather data necessary to combat the impacts of climate change on the, the Himalayas, the world’s largest freshwater resource LADAKH,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Opposes “Monsanto Shield” Provision in Chemical Safety Reform Legislation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
NEW YORK, NY — April 19, 2016 — Waterkeeper Alliance and 55 Waterkeeper member organizations and affiliates across the country are urging President...
Environmental Groups: Federal Government Tried to Hide Serious Harm to Endangered Species from Industrial Cooling Systems
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Ask court to compel agencies to release original biological opinion finding EPA’s cooling water rule will jeopardize endangered species NEW YORK, NY...