Legal Agreement Blocks Drilling on 58,000 Acres in Montana, Dakotas Pending New Analysis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Great Falls, MT—Conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) yesterday reached a settlement agreement that will prevent new oil and gas...
Help The Bahamas Say NO to Offshore Oil Drilling – Once And For All
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Bahamas could send a message to the world – by banning oil drilling now. As Planet Earth spirals toward climate catastrophe, the math is clear:...
Conservation Groups Call for Petroleum Policy Improvements, Better Transparency and Full Accounting of Dispersants Used, Following Exuma Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
In response to the July 20 oil spill on Great Exuma, a coalition of environmental groups lauded the fast response, but called for improved spill prevention...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to West Virginia v. EPA
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
“This ruling is a gift to polluters and will pose a major threat to clean water.” The decision issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court in West...
Lawsuit Challenges Biden’s Resumption of Oil, Gas Leasing on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines Biden’s Climate Goals, Campaign Promises Climate and conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Biden...
Legal Protests Target Biden’s Plans To Resume Oil, Gas Leasing on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines Biden’s Climate Goals, Campaign Promises Climate, conservation and community groups from across the country filed administrative...
Legal Petition Calls On Biden to Phase Out Federal Oil, Gas by 2035
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
More than 360 climate, tribal, religious and conservation groups petitioned the Biden administration today to use its executive authority to phase out...
Water Advocates Call for Government Transparency, Ban on Oil Drilling in Climate-Vulnerable Nations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
A renewed call today by the Our Islands Our Future coalition to the Bahamian government for transparency and a permanent ban on oil drilling highlights...
Law Requires Biden to Cancel February Oil Lease Sale to Prevent Climate Harm
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Conservation groups submitted formal comments today urging cancelation of February’s federal oil and gas lease auctions, saying the Biden administration...
After Years of Community Organizing, Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal and Fracked Gas Pipeline Project is Dead
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Pembina Announces It Has “Decided Not to Move Forward With the Project” and Asks the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Cancel Its Permit Pembina,...
COP26 – Fighting for protection of the world’s waters and a hospitable planet under an intensifying call to action for all humankind
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
It was an honor to represent the Waterkeeper Movement at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. It was an intense two weeks of collective advocacy, learning, networking,...
250+ Organizations Plea With President Biden to Cancel Unprecedented Oil and Gas Megasale in Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
As international climate talks continue, a coalition of 267 organizations – including 36 representing Gulf of Mexico communities – delivered...
COP26: UN human rights experts highlight continued human rights impacts of dams
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Calls mount for UN climate financing mechanisms to exclude hydropower As negotiators convened at COP26 in Glasgow attempt to break the deadlock on emissions...
Biden Makes Climate Pledge at Glasgow While Pushing Oil, Gas Leasing in U.S.
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
U.S. climate groups slammed the Biden administration today for ignoring climate impacts and refusing to stop oil and gas leasing on public lands despite...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Major New Rules To Cut Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Agency Promises More In the Future to Address Flaring and Marginal Wells President Biden announced at the UN Climate Summit today the U.S. Environmental...
Challengers to Jordan Cove LNG get their day in Federal Court
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Oral argument for lawsuit challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector...
Press Conference: Hydropower – A False Climate Solution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Over 280 organizations from 69 countries call for climate funding to exclude so-called “sustainable” hydropower schemes. WHEN: 21 September 2021 |...
Chubb is the 16th insurer to cut ties with the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
“Chubb does not provide insurance coverage for any tar sands projects,” a Chubb spokesperson told the Financial Times today. The announcement was...
Open Letter Calls on Insurers to Cut Ties with Trans Mountain, as Key Pipeline Insurance Policy Expires
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Fifteen insurers have ruled out Trans Mountain already; coalition pledges to continue pressuring the remaining companies Today, Indigenous, environmental,...
Coalition Reacts to UN Climate Report, Renews call for Nationwide Ban on Oil Drilling in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
IPCC 6th Report: Scientists articulate dire warnings and extreme costs of societal inaction The Our Islands Our Future coalition today renewed its call...
500+ Organizations Call on US and Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture and Storage as a False Solution to Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
It’s Time to End the Carbon Capture of Climate Policy In an open letter sent today to leaders in the United States and Canada, more than 500 US, Canadian,...
Hundreds of Groups Demand Biden Name Climate-Focused FERC Commissioner
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
With a Biden nominee on the way, climate activists want the White House to prioritize a shift off fossil fuels Over 320 community, climate, and environmental...
Groups to Biden: Halt New Oil Drilling, Cancel Trump Leases on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Climate, Indigenous and conservation groups today called on the Biden administration to halt new drilling permits and to cancel unlawful Trump-era oil...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Japanese Government’s Plan to Release Fukushima Contaminated Water Into Pacific Ocean
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance, a global movement uniting more than 350 Waterkeeper groups around the world focusing citizen action...
Water Protection Groups File Notice to Sue Ameren over Toxic Coal Ash Pollution Violations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper, and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center today announced that they have served Ameren Corporation,...
After Drilling Bust Off The Bahamas, Groups Call for Permanent Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Despite BPC Oil Drilling Failure, Danger from Offshore Drilling Persists The Bahamas Have Dodged a Bullet, Environmental Leaders Say After facing months...
Lawsuit Launched Over Army Corps’ Failure to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Nationwide Permit Program
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Program Greenlights Environmental Destruction Across Country The Center for Biological Diversity, Waterkeeper Alliance, and allies issued a formal notice...
Groups Challenge Trump Administration Sale of 58,000 Acres of Public Lands for Oil, Gas Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Feds ignored effect on groundwater, cumulative climate impacts A coalition of groups today challenged five Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease...
500 Groups Urge Biden to Order Fossil Fuel Leasing Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary Hundreds of conservation, Native American, religious and business groups...
Legal Protest Blasts Trump Administration Plan for 47,000 Acres of Fracking Leases in Colorado
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Leases Threaten Sage Grouse, Climate Pollution Weeks Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban Conservation groups filed a protest today challenging the...