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Old MacDonald Doesn’t Have a Farm Anymore
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
Your bacon most likely comes from a pig who lived in more crowded conditions than a broke 22-year-old in New York City. The reasons why tell a story that’s...
Plastic Pollution is a Global Problem for Waterways
- By: Pete Nichols
- Clean Water Defense | News
A new Waterkeeper Alliance project will unite plastic pollution measurement, categorization, and localized prevention strategies at an unprecedented global...
What Keeps Me in the Work
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The Waterkeeper Alliance International Summit in Kenya last November brought together 41 front-line workers from the Waterkeeper movement. They traveled...
Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Tells the “Seismic Truth”
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Larry Baldwin believes you deserve to know the truth about seismic testing and offshore drilling. Larry knows how dangerous seismic...
Tell EPA: Stop Bailing Out Big Coal!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
Not only is the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to allow coal-burning power plants to release more coal ash toxins into our...
Meet Your New Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper: Alice Volpitta!
- By: Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper
- News
By Marissa Zuckerman, reposted with permission from Blue Water Baltimore. Blue Water Baltimore is pleased to announce that our lead water quality scientist...
Hope for the Nairobi River
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers from 16 countries and four continents gathered in Nairobi in November to learn from each other and presenters including the acting director...
20 Dams Put Peru’s Heritage at Risk
- By: Marañón River Waterkeeper
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
By Ben Webb and Bruno Monteferri with Marañón River Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb The energy company that’s been planning the Veracruz dam on the...
Native American Water Rights
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The third...
A Pivotal Year For Clean Water
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean And Safe Energy | Clean Water Defense | News
In 2019 we saw monumental attacks on federal clean water protections. The Trump administration is advancing plans to eliminate Clean Water Act protections...
“The Law of the River”
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The second...
Prior Appropriation and Water in the West
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The first...
No More Coal Ash Toxics in Our Waters!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
For decades, coal-fired power plants have profited from being allowed to dump unlimited amounts of toxic coal ash pollutants into our waterways, pushing...
Latin American Waterkeepers Tackle Climate Change
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
Leer en español “Climate change is a clear and dire threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. A threat in which the region has had little or no role...
Keep Little River Wild: Waterkeeper Alliance Supports a Wild and Scenic Designation for Alabama’s Little River
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Angie and Bill Shugart have devoted much of their lives to sharing and preserving the beauty of the unique Little River, which flows through the mountains...
Sign the petition: Denounce Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Climate change is a global threat and the Trump administration dangerously continues to deny the issue. In 2017, Trump announced he was pulling the United...
Cook Inletkeeper’s Fight Against Climate Change for Wild Alaskan Salmon
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Cook Inletkeeper Bob Shavelson has been fighting climate change in Alaska for twenty years. From melting sea ice and receding glaciers to warming salmon...
Waterkeepers Fighting Climate Change: Eight Projects Making a Difference
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
U.S. Waterkeepers are fighting climate change by working to protect the areas they love best from rising seas, ocean acidification, and fossil fuel industry...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Trump Administration’s Coal Rollbacks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The rulemakings will release hundreds of millions of pounds of toxins into waterways The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new...
We deserve a voice on our public lands!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Public lands are required to be managed by the federal government to benefit the United States public as a whole, ideally in a way that protects those...
Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign announces relaunch six weeks after Hurricane Dorian
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On July 15, 2019, five leading Bahamian environmental groups — the Bahamas Reef Environment Education Foundation, Save the Bays, ReEarth, EARTHCARE,...
Gulf and South Atlantic Waterkeepers Respond to Federal Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Across the Gulf and South Atlantic regions of the US, Waterkeepers responded to the EPA rollbacks of Clean Water Act protections with creative, informative,...
Mitigate Oil Pollution
- By: Guest Contributor
- News
By Save the Bays. Reposted with permission from Save the Bays As our islands become more populated, the demand for energy increases, however, this should...
Worried About Microplastics? Stormwater Is A Solution
- By: California Coastkeeper Alliance
- News
By Sean Bothwell, California Coastkeeper Alliance executive director. Reposted with permission from California Coastkeeper Alliance. New research shows...
Tell EPA Administrator Wheeler: We Need a Strong Clean Water Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Tell EPA Administrator Wheeler to stand up for a strong Clean Water Act Forty-seven years ago on October 18, 1972, the Clean Water Act was signed into...
Waterkeeper Groups Across United States Oppose Rollback of States’ Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Proposed revisions to Clean Water Act would hamstring states’ ability to protect their waters Waterkeeper Alliance and 148 Waterkeeper groups today submitted...
Testing Shows Bahamas Oil Spill Contaminated Wetlands More Than One Mile Away
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Nearly Five Million Gallons Spilled; Cleanup Effort Appears to be Inadequate The Bahamas oil spill during Hurricane Dorian contaminated water in critical...
Bringing Sampling Equipment — And Moral Support — to the Bahamas, After Dorian
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Christian Breen, Waterkeeper Alliance field investigator, and Pete Nichols, Waterkeeper’s organizing director, spent five days in late September assisting...
Suncoast Waterkeeper’s “Sick of Sewage” Campaign Resolves Lawsuit Against Sarasota County
- By: Suncoast Waterkeeper
- News
Suncoast Waterkeeper, Our Children’s Earth Foundation, and Ecological Rights Foundation are celebrating our third legal victory in the ongoing “Sick...
Protecting the Bay from Trump’s EPA
- By: San Francisco Baykeeper
- News
By Sejal Choksi-Chugh, originally published in the October 2019 edition of Bay Crossings, reposted with permission from San Francisco Baykeeper The Trump...