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Climate And Safe Energy

Our Climate and Safe Energy campaign reframes the climate crisis as a global water crises and advocates for a transition from dirty fossil fuels towards more environmentally sustainable energy sources.

EPA Withholding Public Information; Groups File Freedom of Information Suit Over America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source


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


Waterkeeper Alliance says EPA’s action to delay requirements is illegal Environmental and health organizations and concerned citizens from throughout...

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Duke Energy’s Plans for Coal Ash Dumps Threaten Indiana’s Great Rivers, Underground Water Supplies


The company’s plan to leave toxic waste in place will cause contamination State and national public interest groups are calling on Indiana environmental...

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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement


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...

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Polluters Ask Trump Administration to Cut Safeguards for Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat


Coal Ash Waste Linked to Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Brain Damage Dangerous piles of industrial waste laced with lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxics...

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Report Reveals Coal Mining a Major Obstacle to Indonesian Food Security


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


A press conference was held for the publication of international research report titled as “Rampal Thermal Power Plant: Potential Air Pollution, Toxicity...

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Groups Sue To Block Trump Rollback of Safeguards For America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source


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


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


Impacted groups including Native Americans, landowners, environmental justice communities, and allies fight to #StopETP  Today, a diverse coalition of...

EPA seeks to dismantle regulation of America’s largest source of toxic water pollution


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


Fracking Threatens Colorado River, Endangered Species, Climate, Rocky Mountain National Park and Dinosaur National Monument Conservation groups have filed...

Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate


Today, President Trump signed an executive order that will have grave climate impacts. The order rolls back many Obama Administration initiatives to curb...

Groups Intervene to Protect the Stream Protection Rule


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


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


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


MEDFORD, OR – Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of...

Proposed NCDEQ Permit Would Leave 5.9M Tons of Duke’s Toxic Material at H.F. Lee


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


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


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


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...

Waterkeeper Alliance Update: Lab Analysis Detects Dangerous Metals from Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill


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


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


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


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...

Civil Rights Report Calls Out EPA’s Chronic Failure to Protect Most Vulnerable Communities


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


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


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


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


McCrory Administration ignored and overruled advice of State Epidemiologist on coal ash toxin, put interests of polluters over public health RALEIGH, NC...