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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Maryland Court Rules in Favor of Local Riverkeepers and Rejects Weak Montgomery County Stormwater Permit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
On April 2, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled against the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) and sent the flawed stormwater permit for...
Cape Fear River Watch and Waterkeeper Alliance Oppose Proposed Reclassification of the Lower Cape Fear River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
DENR Proposal Ignores Pollution Sources to the Detriment of North Carolina Citizens WILMINGTON, NC – March 5, 2015 – Cape Fear River Watch and Waterkeeper Alliance,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Statement on EPA’s Final “Connectivity” Report
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
January 16, 2015 – The release of EPA’s final report, Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters: A Review and Synthesis of the...
Coalition Files Lawsuit to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles, Whales, Aquatic Species
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Coalition Files Lawsuit to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles, Whales, Aquatic Species Endangered Species Nationwide Threatened by Dangerous Cooling Water...
Groups Applaud Authorities Budget Office for Thorough Review of EFC Clean Water Raid & Operations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
In August, the independent state Authorities Budget Office (ABO) announced it was investigating the Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) to determine...
Groups Urge Full Protection of Tributaries and Adjacent Waters in WOTUS Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Broad, clear definition of “Waters of the U.S.” critical to protecting our waterways Waterkeeper Alliance submits comments to EPA and U.S. Army Corps...
Groups File Lawsuit Challenging State’s Plan to Partially Finance New Tappan Zee Bridge by Raiding Critical Clean Water Funds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Groups File Lawsuit Challenging State’s Plan to Partially Finance New Tappan Zee Bridge by Raiding Critical Clean Water Funds Action taken to discourage...