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Support the Farm System Reform Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Farm System Reform Act was recently introduced by Senator Cory Booker (NJ) and Representative Ro Khanna (CA) into both the U.S. House of Representatives...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Mbacke Seck, Hann Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Mbacke Seck was a student in 1998 when he and some fellow students noticed a disturbing development at their local beach in Hann Bay in Senegal. The area...
Fully Restore Clean Water Act Protections for All Waters of the United States
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Clean Water Act is intended to ensure our waters are safe for swimming, drinking, fishing, and other uses. However, the law cannot achieve these goals...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Bill Lucey, Long Island Soundkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Bill Lucey, a Connecticut native, has been the Long Island Soundkeeper since 2017. However, the organization’s inception dates back three decades to...
Tijuana Waterkeeper Works to Improve Some of the Most Contaminated Beaches in the World But They Need Your Help
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- Clean Water Defense | News
Tijuana Waterkeeper, a program of Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, has been around for quite some time. What started as beach cleanups has...
5 Trends in Water for 2022
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
As we look ahead to a new year, we asked some of our team to forecast what trends and issues they think will impact water in 2022. Here’s what they had...
Connecting People and Building Organic Movements
- By: Gomti River Waterkeeper
- News
By Venkatesh Dutta, Gomti River Waterkeeper Working as a Waterkeeper, having a strong sense of ‘social dynamics focus’ offers me invaluable experiences...
Beating Back the Tide of Nurdle Pollution with Charleston Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
A pernicious and increasingly common form of plastic pollution comes by way of the innocuously named nurdles, the lentil-sized “pre-production pellets”...
Help Us Strengthen and Expand Federal Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Recently, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reaffirmed what many of us already know: climate change is accelerating and...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Daru Setyorini, Brantas River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Daru Setyorini is the Brantas River Waterkeeper in Indonesia. She grew up near the river and has many happy childhood memories of swimming and playing...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Flint River originates in the Upper Piedmont region of Georgia near the outskirts of Atlanta Metro and runs nearly 350 miles downstream — and downstate...
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
- Clean 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,...
Week of Action: Transition to a More Sustainable and Equitable Food System
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
This action notice is updated from a notice originally shared in September 2020. We require farms and food systems that are resilient, healthy, and fair...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Major New Rules To Cut Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean 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...
It’s Time to Fully Restore the Cornerstone of Environmental Law
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed in 1970, requires federal agencies to assess any significant environmental impacts a federal action...
Who is Waterkeeper: Alberto Guillén, La Paz Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Bay of La Paz in Baja California, Mexico is a stunningly biodiverse body of water situated within the Gulf of California at the southern end of the...
Who is Waterkeeper: Jefferson Currie II, Lumber Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Jeff Currie had only been on the job as Lumber Riverkeeper for a few weeks in 2018 when Hurricane Florence came barreling through North Carolina. The devastating...
International Coalition Petitions Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Investigate Factory-Farm Abuses
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
The coalition includes advocates in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, United States, and the request is supported by 127 organizations and 151 academics,...
Help Keep Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Out of Our Water
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
One of the most dangerous and persistent threats to our nation’s waters is the group of emerging contaminants known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
Motion to Protect Amazon Rivers Approved at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille
- By: Guest Contributor
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR). Republished with permission. The Members’ Assembly of the International Union for Conservation of...
Help Ensure All Americans Have Safe Drinking Water
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Reliably clean and safe drinking water is something most people expect as a given. That trust was earned through protections like those afforded under...
Who is Waterkeeper: Guy Alsentzer, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
There’s an old expression in Montana: “Whiskey’s for drinking, and water’s for fighting.” Leading that fight as Upper Missouri Waterkeeper is...
We Must Urgently Restore Clean Water Protections
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
In 2020, the Trump administration issued an unprecedented new regulation that dramatically eliminated federal Clean Water Act protections for rivers,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dire IPCC Report on Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier today brings a dire warning: climate change is accelerating and aggressive...
Wealth Before Health: State Regulators Ignoring Big Sky’s Big Pollution Problem
- By: Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Wealthy Developers Get Categorical Exclusions; Ignoring Cumulative Impacts Polluting Gallatin River Watershed Originally posted by Upper Missouri Waterkeeper....
Who is Waterkeeper: Ivy Frignoca, Casco Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
When the Casco Baykeeper position opened up six years ago, Ivy Frignoca jumped at the opportunity. Frignoca is a lawyer and environmental advocate, whose...
Plastic Free July: Thinking beyond litter, landfills, and recycling rates
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Plastic Free July is a global movement for cleaner streets, oceans, and communities. Waterkeeper Alliance salutes our partners and all those fighting back...
Support the Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act is proposed legislation from Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative A. Donald McEachin (VA-04)....
Clean Water Act Victory in the Washington State Court of Appeals
- By: Puget Soundkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
Originally published by Puget Soundkeeper, reposted with permission. Soundkeeper and Partners Successful in their Challenge of a Statewide Agricultural...
Who is Waterkeeper: John Forrester, Werribee Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
John Forrester has been the Werribee Riverkeeper in Australia since 2014. His love of the river, however, goes back much further than that. Forrester has...
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