Climate And Safe Energy
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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...
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President Trump’s Offshore Drilling Executive Order an Affront to Coastal Communities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
NEW YORK, NY – President Trump issued an Executive Order today that begins the process of vastly expanding offshore oil and gas drilling. Called...
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New nationwide coalition unites to stop Energy Transfer Partners
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Impacted groups including Native Americans, landowners, environmental justice communities, and allies fight to #StopETP Today, a diverse coalition of...
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EPA seeks to dismantle regulation of America’s largest source of toxic water pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
In a personal response to a request from a syndicate of the country’s biggest and richest power companies, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt...
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Legal Protest Targets Trump’s Fracking Plan of 100,000 Acres in Colorado
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Fracking Threatens Colorado River, Endangered Species, Climate, Rocky Mountain National Park and Dinosaur National Monument Conservation groups have filed...
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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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Groups Intervene to Protect the Stream Protection Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Washington, D.C.- Today, a coalition of local and national community and conservation groups filed a motion to be allowed to help defend the national Stream...
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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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Coalition applauds final denial of Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
MEDFORD, OR – Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of...
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Proposed NCDEQ Permit Would Leave 5.9M Tons of Duke’s Toxic Material at H.F. Lee
- By: Matthew Starr
- Climate And Safe Energy
Matthew Starr is the Upper Neuse Riverkeeper based in Raleigh, NC. Before he leaves office, NC Governor Pat McCrory may be leaving one last gift under...
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United States’ First Tar Sands Mine Delayed
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Companies and investors reject Utah’s unconventional fuels Vernal, Utah – US Oil Sands Inc., the company attempting to open the United States’...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Decision
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not grant an easement that would have allowed the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross...
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Conservation Groups Reach Settlement with Duke Energy on Sutton Coal Ash
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Up to $1.5 million secured for clean water and conservation in the lower Cape Fear Watershed near Wilmington CHAPEL HILL, N.C.–Conservation groups...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Update: Lab Analysis Detects Dangerous Metals from Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Update on lab results Scientists at Appalachian State University used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to visualize samples of the spilled coal ash...
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Another Duke Energy coal ash spill discovered into the Neuse River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee...
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Conservation Groups Obtain Agreement Requiring Coal Ash Removal from Duke Energy’s Buck Plant
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Yadkin Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, have reached a settlement with...
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Nearly 70 Organizations Call On President Obama To Protect The Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Groups Call for the Gulf to be Excluded from the Five Year Plan New Orleans, LA — Today, nearly 70 groups sent a letter to President Obama, urging...
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Civil Rights Report Calls Out EPA’s Chronic Failure to Protect Most Vulnerable Communities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Confirms impacts and cost of coal ash pollution are borne disproportionately by nation’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — September 23,...
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North Carolina Riverkeepers Blast NC Senate Plan to let Duke off the Hook for Coal Ash Cleanups
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
This afternoon, an anti-environmental faction within the North Carolina state senate suddenly introduced a bill that would effectively repeal key provisions...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Statement on NC DEQ Coal Ash Classifications
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
McCrory administration ignores state law deadline for Duke Energy coal ash cleanups RALEIGH, NC — May 18, 2016 — Today the North Carolina...
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Waterkeeper Alliance and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper React to Shell’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
NEW YORK, NY and BATON ROUGE, LA, May 13, 2016 —- An underwater pipeline at a Shell oil drilling platform has spilled 90,000 gallons of oil into...
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Transcript Sheds Light on Deceptive North Carolina Do-not-drink Advisories
- By: Pete Harrison
- Climate And Safe Energy
McCrory Administration ignored and overruled advice of State Epidemiologist on coal ash toxin, put interests of polluters over public health RALEIGH, NC...
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International coalition issues urgent appeal to save Bangladeshs people and tigers from Rampal coal plant
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Over 70 NGOs from 29 countries send urgent appeal to Exim Bank of India not to finance Rampal coal plant Nijmegen, Netherlands – A global coalition...
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Georgia legislature overwhelmingly rejects river easements for Spectra’s Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail Pipeline
- By: John S. Quarterman
- Climate And Safe Energy
John S. Quarterman is President of WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc., the Waterkeeper® Affiliate for the Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and Upper Suwannee River...
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Historic Petition Urges Obama to Halt All New Offshore Fossil Fuel Leases
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
More Than 45 Organizations Back Historic Legal Petition That Takes Aim at Ocean-drilling Damage to Climate, Wildlife, Communities WASHINGTON— More than...
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An Urgent Leap from Coal to Renewable Energy Needed to Ease Global Water Shortage
- By: Donna Lisenby
- Climate And Safe Energy
A Greenpeace study, The Great Water Grab, released today showing that the coal industry is responsible for deepening the global water crisis, has prompted...
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Fully Loaded, Coal-Laden Vessel Sinks in the Sundarbans
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeeper organizations call on governments of India and Bangladesh to stop construction of Rampal and Orion Power Plants situated by the bank of River...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Five-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Plan
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft five-year plan for 2017-2022 that closes the Atlantic Ocean for oil and gas drilling...
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Coalition celebrates FERC denial of Jordan Cove LNG terminal and Pacific Connector pipeline
- By: Lesley Adams
- Climate And Safe Energy
Coalition celebrates FERC denial of Jordan Cove LNG terminal and Pacific Connector pipeline Medford, OR—Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...