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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to U.S. Supreme Court’s Overturning of the Chevron Doctrine
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
The Supreme Court issued its opinion today in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, explicitly overturning the decades-old Chevron doctrine—a...
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Urge Secretary Buttigieg to Finalize the Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed an Advanced Leak Detection and...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds the Reinstatement of Environmental Review of Financing of Industrial Animal Agriculture Facilities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Waterkeeper Alliance applauds the actions of The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to reverse some of the worst impacts of the previous...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds EPA’s Historic New Rules to Protect Communities and Clean Water from Toxic Power Plant Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
The Environmental Protection Agency released four groundbreaking rules to address pollution from power plants and protect local communities and waterways...
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Earth Day Declaration: Groups Urge Bold Action to Strengthen the Global Plastics Treaty
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, in honor of Earth Day, a diverse group of 54 organizations from 24 countries across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia...
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Final Biden Oil, Gas Rule Offers Fiscal Reforms, Nothing on Climate
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management (the Bureau) released its final oil and gas leasing rule. The rule contains welcome and decades-overdue...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Offers New Clean Water Podcast, ‘Equity In Every Drop’
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Global Ambassadors | Press Releases | Waterkeeper Movement
To engage new audiences and generate conversations that lead to action, Waterkeeper Alliance has launched a new podcast, Equity In Every Drop. Compelling...
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Tell EPA to Finalize the Strongest and Most Durable Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule that would charge oil and gas companies for excessive climate-harming...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Global Ambassador Jax Davey Gears Up For Ice Ultramarathon In Effort to Spotlight Clean Water, Climate Threats
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Global Ambassadors | News | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance Global Ambassador Jax Davey is gearing up for an Arctic Ultramarathon in hopes to raise awareness for clean water and environmental...
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Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeeper Groups React to Final COP28 Deal, Call on World Leaders to Support a Proposed Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
In response to the historic climate deal struck at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) today in...
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Vulnerable Fishing Communities From Across the World Deliver Declaration to United Nations to End Offshore Oil & Gas Expansion
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
A Complete Phase Out is the Only Credible Pathway to Limit Climate Change to 1.5º C and to Uphold the Human Rights of Coastal and Fishing Communities...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on Insurance Industry to Support 1.5°C Climate Targets
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, the Insure Our Future campaign released its seventh annual scorecard on insurance, fossil fuels, and the climate emergency. The report was co-published...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds Reintroduction of the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, Waterkeeper Alliance applauded Representative Jared Huffman (CA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) for reintroducing the Break Free From Plastic Pollution...
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FERC Approves GTN Xpress Despite Opposition from Communities, Tribes, U.S. Senators, West Coast Governors
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Grassroots Opposition Groups Vow to Challenge FERC’s Decision Which Comes in the Wake of Two Recent Major TC Energy Pipeline Failures Local and national...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to the Biden Administration’s Five-Year Plan for Offshore Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
The U.S. Department of the Interior released its National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2024-2029 (“Five-Year Plan”) today,...
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Advocates to Biden: Federal Oil and Gas Rule Must Meet Climate Imperatives
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Eleven western U.S. groups have provided the Bureau of Land Management comments imploring the agency to address the climate crisis in its proposal to update...
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Help Fully Restore the National Environmental Policy Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed in 1970, requires federal agencies to assess any significant environmental impacts a federal action,...
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Estonian Oil Shale Giant Abandons Federal Oil Shale Lease, Loses Colorado River Basin Water Deal
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Estonian state-owned oil shale company Enefit American Oil is abandoning its lease to mine oil shale on federal public land in northeastern Utah’s Uinta...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Sweden for Regional Summit
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Skill building in the far North, with 24 hours of daylight, sled dogs, and coffee. Earlier this month, Waterkeepers from Africa, the Middle East, Europe,...
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Urge USDOT to Finalize the Strongest Possible Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Standards
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), by way of its Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), recently announced a proposed...
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Help Protect American Communities, Air, and Waters From Toxic Power Plant Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to strengthen Clean Air Act (CAA) controls on mercury and other toxic pollution emissions...
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Tell President Biden to Protect Environmental and Public Health Safeguards From the Reckless Demands of the Fossil Fuel Industry
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Certain members of Congress are trying to sneak through a dirty deal to undo environmental protections by trading away vital safeguards in exchange for...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Condemns House Passage of H.R. 1 “Polluters Over People” Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. Also dubbed the “Polluters Over People” Act, this sweeping...
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Op-Ed: The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
By Marc Yaggi This week, many of us from around the world—including environmentalists, politicians, corporate leaders, and more— gathered at the United...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Delivers Natural Water Systems Declaration to United Nations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, as part of its participation in the 2023 UN Water Conference, Waterkeeper Alliance delivered a declaration on behalf of a global coalition calling...
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Tell EPA to Adopt Strongest Possible Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed an updated draft rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations...
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Waterkeepers Bahamas: Guarding Against the Oil Industry’s Advances
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeepers Bahamas was established in 2014 to ensure the waters of the Bahamas are safe for swimming, fishing and drinking for future generations of...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA Strengthening of Proposed Methane Standards
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it intends to strengthen its proposed standards to cut methane and other...
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Biden Administration Flouts Climate Goals with Inflation Reduction Act’s First Onshore Oil, Gas Lease Sales
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The Biden administration is working against U.S. climate goals and failing to protect communities, water and wildlife by auctioning oil and gas leases...
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Tell Congress to Reject Manchin’s ‘Dirty Deal’ to Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In exchange for his vote to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act last month, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has demanded a vote on a second bill...