Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Massive Utah Oil Shale Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Water-sucking Project Threatens Endangered Species, Climate, Air Quality Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration to challenge what would...
Groups Move to Defend N.C. Order that Duke Energy Must Clean Up Coal Ash Pollution at Six Sites
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Duke’s Refusal Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills Community groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center moved...
Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Strengthen Rule on Toxic Wastewater from Power Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
EPA must update guidelines for reducing toxic wastewater pollution from steam-electric power plants Siding with environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
N.C. Coal Ash Victory: State-Level Peer Pressure
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones was standing before a packed gym of angry people in January, asking North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality...
North Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Clean Up its Coal Ash Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Decision Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills After hundreds of North Carolina residents came out to meetings and called for...
Tell EPA: Keep Mercury Limits Strong
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Thanks to air emissions standards created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act in 2011, important progress in reducing...
US insurers provide lifeline to coal as global insurance market shrinks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Report shows European insurers leading on restricting coal industry’s access to underwriting while U.S. insurers undermine action to tackle climate...
Waterkeeper Alliance responds to Sutton coal ash spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Following Duke Energy’s disclosure of a coal ash release at its L.V. Sutton Power Station outside Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018, Donna Lisenby,...
Major consumer, climate groups call on insurance industry to ditch fossil fuels
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
New campaign Insure Our Future to hold US insurers accountable for a role in climate change as first US insurance company to commit not to invest in coal...
Energy Transfer and Sunoco Pipelines Have Leaked Every Eleven Days on Average
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Energy Transfer Partners, its subsidiaries including Sunoco, and joint ventures reported 527 hazardous liquids pipeline incidents to federal regulators...
Stop EPA from Eliminating Protections Against Toxic Coal Ash | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is attempting to roll back important public protections from coal ash, a toxic waste that contaminates water...
Groups Blast EPA Over Proposal to Hand Over Regulation of Coal Ash to State Agency
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
National and local Oklahoma environmental and conservation groups jointly submitted public comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explaining...
Pollution Report shows significant danger posed by coal ash in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
- By: Mobile Baykeeper
- Climate And Safe Energy
Mobile Baykeeper’s detailed investigation report highlights coal ash pollution and dam safety concerns at Alabama Power’s Plant Barry Mobile Baykeeper...
Appeals Court Panel allows Bayou Bridge pipeline construction to resume while legal appeals proceeds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
In 2-1 ruling, court lifts preliminary injunction and expedites appeal schedule The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today granted a motion...
Trump Administration Guts Safeguards For Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Coal ash waste linked to cancer, heart disease, stroke, brain damage The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decided yesterday afternoon that it will...
Groundwater Monitoring Reveals Widespread Radioactivity at Duke Energy Coal Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Data shows high levels of radioactivity at 11 of 18 plants Today is the deadline for coal-fired power plants to post the results of their groundwater...
Federal judge blocks construction of Bayou Bridge pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Pipeline construction would “irreparably harm” Atchafalaya Basin BATON ROUGE, LA – Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halted the construction...
Press Conference: Atchafalaya groups discuss fight to stop Bayou Bridge pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Groups will gather outside federal courthouse prior to hearing on preliminary injunction BATON ROUGE, LA— Representing the interests of the millions...
Atchafalaya Groups Seek Halt to Construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Federal Judge Will Hear Requests for Immediate Injunction in Atchafalaya Seeking an immediate halt to the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline, several...
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...
Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Responds to Keystone Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Yesterday, TransCanada’s Keystone 1 pipeline spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands oil in South Dakota, just days before the Nebraska Public...
Leading insurance companies divest $20 billion from coal and end underwriting
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Scorecard finds most insurers still failing to take action on coal to prevent dangerous climate change Leading insurance companies have pulled $20 billion...
EPA Withholding Public Information; Groups File Freedom of Information Suit Over America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
First, EPA abruptly abandoned protections to prevent toxics from being dumped into our waterways — now, the agency is illegally keeping information...
Organizations, Citizens Speak Out Against EPA’s Rollback of Toxic Water Pollution Limits
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeeper Alliance says EPA’s action to delay requirements is illegal Environmental and health organizations and concerned citizens from throughout...
Duke Energy’s Plans for Coal Ash Dumps Threaten Indiana’s Great Rivers, Underground Water Supplies
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
The company’s plan to leave toxic waste in place will cause contamination State and national public interest groups are calling on Indiana environmental...
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...
Polluters Ask Trump Administration to Cut Safeguards for Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Coal Ash Waste Linked to Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Brain Damage Dangerous piles of industrial waste laced with lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxics...
Report Reveals Coal Mining a Major Obstacle to Indonesian Food Security
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Indonesian mining advocacy network, JATAM, and international clean water nonprofit, Waterkeeper Alliance, today released a damning report, “Hungry...
Rampal Thermal Power Plant: Potential Air Pollution, Toxicity and Effects on Human Health
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
A press conference was held for the publication of international research report titled as “Rampal Thermal Power Plant: Potential Air Pollution, Toxicity...
Groups Sue To Block Trump Rollback of Safeguards For America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Discharges from Coal Plants to Public Waters Increase Cancer and Brain Damage Risk WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of environmental and public health...