Clean Water Defense
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Bangladesh’s Ratargul Swamp Forest Poisoned in Act of Environmental Sabotage
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sylhet, Bangladesh — October 26, 2015 — Unknown culprits have poisoned a prominent canal in the Ratargul Swamp Forest...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s final Power Plant Toxic Water Pollution Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
NEW YORK, NY — Today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released a final rule setting limits on toxic water pollution from power...
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Waterkeeper Alliance and Colorado Partner Groups Assess Impacts of Animas River Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Durango, Colorado and New York, NY – Yesterday’s spill of one million gallons of wastewater from an abandoned mine into the Animas River, a tributary...
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Lawsuit Challenges Loopholes in New EPA Rule Exempting Wetlands and Streams From Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
In Bow to Industry, EPA Rule Hurts Water Quality, Human Health and Wildlife Across Country WASHINGTON—Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging...
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Groups File Lawsuit Against EPA’s Weak Industrial Stormwater Permit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Challenge vague limits that will be ineffective in controlling discharge of pollution from many industrial facilities into nation’s waterways New York,...
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US EPA and Army Corps Issue Weak Clean Water Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
EPA rolls back protections for streams and rivers New York, NY and Washington, DC – May 27, 2015 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...