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Trump’s Cabinet Will Throw Us Into Environmental Catastrophe
- By: Marc Yaggi
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ACT NOW: Write your Senator today and demand they do not approve Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, and Rex Tillerson to Trump’s Cabinet. The facts...
The Legal Reasons DAPL Is Not Dead
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
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Daniel E. Estrin is General Counsel and Legal Director for Waterkeeper Alliance. Like many concerned citizens, I initially felt great relief on December...
Environmental Groups Challenge NCDEQ For Failing To Respond to Citizen Complaints
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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RALEIGH, NC – Yesterday, Waterkeeper Alliance, Cape Fear River Watch and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) joined together to...
North Carolina Communities Impacted by CAFOs Ask EPA to Make A Finding of Discrimination By Year’s End
- By: ajcarapella
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By Elizabeth Haddix, Senior Staff Attorney, UNC Center for Civil Rights African American, Latino, and Native American residents of Eastern North Carolina...
Do You Stand With Standing Rock? #NoDAPL Month of Action Starts Today!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Water Protectors at Standing Rock are asking for your help with a Month of Solidarity through December. Here’s a few things you can do to help the folks...
“Dirty Dozen” Calls Out Most Threatened Waters in Georgia
- By: ajcarapella
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Written by Georgia Water Coalition, a group of more than 230 organizations including Altamaha Riverkeeper, Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Chattachoochee Riverkeeper,...
BNSF Railway will clean up coal pollution in Washington waters
- By: Bart Mihailovich
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A coalition of environmental organizations and BNSF Railway (BNSF) have reached an agreement in principle that will ensure that BNSF starts to clean up...
Stop Dakota Access Before It’s Too Late
- By: Marc Yaggi
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Our deadly addiction to fossil fuels and our too slow transition to a clean energy economy is threatening our very existence, and ultimately forces...
We Continue Our Fight
- By: Marc Yaggi
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As news of yesterday’s U.S. Presidential election reverberates around the world, we want to assure you that it will not deter the Waterkeeper movement’s...
EXPOSING FIELDS OF FILTH
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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After Hurricane, First Detailed Look at Flooding of Feces-Laden N.C. Factory Farms By Soren Rundquist, Director of Spatial Analysis, Environmental Working...
2016 Gulf and South Atlantic Regional Retreat Recap
- By: Bart Mihailovich
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At the end of October on the sprawling grounds of the Georgia Wildlife Federation Alcovy Conservation Center in Covington, Georgia, 41 attendees representing...
Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline and Uphold the Rights of Water Protectors
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Today, in a letter to President Obama, Waterkeeper Alliance called for the President, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to order an immediate halt...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper at Sound Rivers Respond to News of Coal Ash Release from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee Facility in Goldsboro, NC
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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BREAKING NEWS RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — Late on Friday afternoon, Duke Energy informed the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Conduct Aerial Patrols, Document Hog Waste Contamination and Flooded Coal Ash Ponds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — Waterkeeper Alliance continues to activate its Rapid Response protocol with 13 North Carolina Riverkeeper organizations...
The Coal Mine and the Town It Will Swallow
- By: Paul Winn
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It’s not easy to admit for a coal campaigner, but after 10 years of sustained campaigning, my home town of Newcastle, at the mouth of the Hunter River...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Respond to Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Breach of Quaker Neck Lake
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Today, Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper are responding to and documenting the breach of a 1.2-billion-gallon cooling pond dam at Duke Energy’s...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Respond to Hurricane Matthew Flooding in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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Offering opportunities for aerial flights over impacted areas RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — As treacherous floods continue to devastate North Carolina...
Pipeline Protests: Many Tools, One United Goal
- By: ajcarapella
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Written by Natalie Jensen, Legal Intern, Clean and Safe Energy Campaign After years of growth amidst opposition from concerned citizens, fossil fuel pipeline...
Inspiration In The Year Of The Monkey
- By: Marc Yaggi
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Earlier this month, Waterkeeper Alliance’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Sharon Khan, and I traveled to remote Ladakh, India in the northern reaches of...
Judge Finds Taylor Energy Improperly Limited Third-Party Review of Information Surrounding Ongoing Oil Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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As oil slick appears to grow larger, company violates terms of settlement agreement NEW ORLEANS, LA — September 22, 2016 — United States District...
Unquiet Flows the Mahanadi
- By: Ranjan Panda
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Ranjan Panda in the Mahanadi River Waterkeeper, based in Odisha, India. India’s Mahanadi River Waterkeeper Ranjan Panda has started an initiative to...
Taylor Energy: Still Leaking Oil and Still Secretive
- By: Larissa Liebmann
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As oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico appears to intensify, Taylor Energy breaches terms of its settlement agreement. Despite signing a settlement agreement...
Free the Snake River, Remove the Dams
- By: Gary Wockner
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Gary Wockner, EcoWatch Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. Buck Ryan, the Snake River Waterkeeper, put it this way, “Removing hydroelectric dams...
Waterkeepers and the Planet at the Crossroads – IUCN World Congress 2016
- By: Marc Yaggi
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From September 1 to 10, 2016, more than 6,000 people from around the world – representing non-profits, indigenous groups, government, academia, and...
Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds Norway’s Decision to Dump Duke Energy Stocks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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NEW YORK, NY — September 7, 2016 — Today Norway’s central bank announced that the Norwegian Government’s Pension Fund, worth $900 billion,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Desecration of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Sacred Sites by Dakota Access Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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NEW YORK, NY — September 6, 2016 — This past Saturday, Energy Transfer Partners bulldozed historically and culturally significant Standing...
North Carolina Hog CAFOs Dumping Waste in Advance of Tropical Storm Hermine
- By: Christian Breen
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Cape Fear Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Document Violations at roughly 30 CAFOs WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA – September 2, 2016 – On Thursday,...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Waterkeepers Worldwide Stand in Solidarity with Sioux Nation to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
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NEW YORK, NY — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance, and 93 Waterkeeper organizations worldwide sent a letter to Standing Rock Sioux tribal leaders...
Testing for Pollution on Climate Stressed Rivers in Ladakh
- By: Sharon Khan
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This piece was co-written with Cheryl Nenn, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, and Christine Ellis, Waccamaw Riverkeeper. By July 19, after days of traveling, our...
An Exciting Patrol on Dongting Lake
- By: Min Zheng
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On my last visit to China in April 2016, I went on a night patrol with Dongting Lake Waterkeeper DaMing He, aka Brother Ming, on Dongting Lake, a large,...