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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds EPA’s Historic New Rules to Protect Communities and Clean Water from Toxic Power Plant Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
The Environmental Protection Agency released four groundbreaking rules to address pollution from power plants and protect local communities and waterways...
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Final Biden Oil, Gas Rule Offers Fiscal Reforms, Nothing on Climate
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management (the Bureau) released its final oil and gas leasing rule. The rule contains welcome and decades-overdue...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Offers New Clean Water Podcast, ‘Equity In Every Drop’
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Global Ambassadors | Press Releases | Waterkeeper Movement
To engage new audiences and generate conversations that lead to action, Waterkeeper Alliance has launched a new podcast, Equity In Every Drop. Compelling...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Global Ambassador Jax Davey Gears Up For Ice Ultramarathon In Effort to Spotlight Clean Water, Climate Threats
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Global Ambassadors | News | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance Global Ambassador Jax Davey is gearing up for an Arctic Ultramarathon in hopes to raise awareness for clean water and environmental...
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Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeeper Groups React to Final COP28 Deal, Call on World Leaders to Support a Proposed Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
In response to the historic climate deal struck at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) today in...
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Vulnerable Fishing Communities From Across the World Deliver Declaration to United Nations to End Offshore Oil & Gas Expansion
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
A Complete Phase Out is the Only Credible Pathway to Limit Climate Change to 1.5º C and to Uphold the Human Rights of Coastal and Fishing Communities...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds EPA’s Final Rule to Cut Methane Pollution, Calls for Stronger Climate Action
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule to cut methane pollution from existing oil and gas sources — a positive climate...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Alice Volpitta, Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Alice Volpitta can trace her love for water back to when she grew up in Maryland crabbing and fishing with her dad on the tributaries of the Chesapeake...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on Insurance Industry to Support 1.5°C Climate Targets
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, the Insure Our Future campaign released its seventh annual scorecard on insurance, fossil fuels, and the climate emergency. The report was co-published...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to the Biden Administration’s Five-Year Plan for Offshore Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
The U.S. Department of the Interior released its National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2024-2029 (“Five-Year Plan”) today,...
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Advocates to Biden: Federal Oil and Gas Rule Must Meet Climate Imperatives
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Eleven western U.S. groups have provided the Bureau of Land Management comments imploring the agency to address the climate crisis in its proposal to update...
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Help Fully Restore the National Environmental Policy Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed in 1970, requires federal agencies to assess any significant environmental impacts a federal action,...
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Estonian Oil Shale Giant Abandons Federal Oil Shale Lease, Loses Colorado River Basin Water Deal
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Estonian state-owned oil shale company Enefit American Oil is abandoning its lease to mine oil shale on federal public land in northeastern Utah’s Uinta...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Sweden for Regional Summit
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Skill building in the far North, with 24 hours of daylight, sled dogs, and coffee. Earlier this month, Waterkeepers from Africa, the Middle East, Europe,...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Hyannis, Massachusetts for Regional Summit
- By: María Victoria Díaz-González
- News
Earlier this month, North Atlantic Waterkeepers gathered in Hyannis, Massachusetts for a long awaited Regional Summit. The North Atlantic Regional Summit...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Alabama for Regional Summit
- By: Patience Burke
- News
Last month, Waterkeeper groups from more than a dozen different states descended upon the Magic City – Birmingham, Alabama – to attend the Gulf and...
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Tell President Biden to Protect Environmental and Public Health Safeguards From the Reckless Demands of the Fossil Fuel Industry
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Certain members of Congress are trying to sneak through a dirty deal to undo environmental protections by trading away vital safeguards in exchange for...
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The 2023 Goldman Prize Winners Symbolize Hope for Our Future
- By: Lori Harrison
- News
In many cultures across the world a rainbow symbolizes hope. For The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where I was headed for the second...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Rashema Ingraham, Bimini Coastal Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Bimini is the westernmost region of The Bahamas. This chain of small islands is only about 50 miles west of Miami and is home to the famed Bimini Road,...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Condemns House Passage of H.R. 1 “Polluters Over People” Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act. Also dubbed the “Polluters Over People” Act, this sweeping...
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Recapping the 2023 United Nations Water Conference
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The United Nations held its first Water Conference since 1977. Waterkeeper Alliance had an international delegation, including Mbacke Seck of Hann Baykeeper...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Gidon Bromberg, Jordan River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Jordan River runs for about 100 kilometers, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, serving as a border between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians....
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Tell EPA to Adopt Strongest Possible Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed an updated draft rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Melinda Booth, Yuba River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Yuba River runs for about a hundred miles from its origins in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe in Northern California downhill to the Sacramento...
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COP27: Groups warn of severe climate and human rights risk of new hydropower dams and schemes
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Dams and hydropower schemes create major loss and damage, including producing significant amounts of methane, biodiversity loss, and community displacement....
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA Strengthening of Proposed Methane Standards
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it intends to strengthen its proposed standards to cut methane and other...
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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...
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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...
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Law Requires Biden to Cancel February Oil Lease Sale to Prevent Climate Harm
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Conservation groups submitted formal comments today urging cancelation of February’s federal oil and gas lease auctions, saying the Biden administration...
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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
- Climate 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,...