Environmental Justice
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Liliana Guerrero, Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Liliana Guerrero has been the Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper since 2010. She had been living in Cartagena, Colombia, working as a law professor. A colleague...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Attorney to Advise EPA on Clean Water Act Improvements for Animal Feeding Operations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters | Waterkeeper Movement
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has invited Waterkeeper Alliance’s Senior Attorney Kelly Hunter Foster to serve on its new Animal Agriculture...
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Urge Secretary Buttigieg to Finalize the Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed an Advanced Leak Detection and...
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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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Coalition of Groups Submits Comments Urging EPA to Require Industrial Animal Feeding Operations to Report their Dangerous Air Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
A coalition of environmental, animal welfare, and community advocacy groups, including Waterkeeper Alliance, submitted comments in response to a request...
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Tell EPA to Protect American Waterways From Slaughterhouse and Rendering Plant Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a proposed rule to establish new water pollution control standards for slaughterhouses...
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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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EPA Proposes Improved Water Pollution Control Standards for Slaughterhouses and Rendering Facilities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News | Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new water pollution control standards for slaughterhouses and rendering facilities in response...
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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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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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Tell Congress to Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, which was first introduced in 2020 and updated in 2021, will soon be reintroduced in both the U.S. House of...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Stands With Groups in the Western U.S Seeking to Avoid the Collapse of the Colorado River Supply System
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Colorado Riverkeeper, John Weisheit, drafted detailed scoping comments submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation on August 17, 2023 as a part of that agency’s...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on NCDEQ To Listen to Public Input, Protect Communities During 2024 General Permitting Process
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Waterkeeper Alliance & Partners Will Host the “People’s Hearing” to Increase Access to Public Participation & Ensure that the Final General...
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Help Extend Water Quality Protections to Tribal Waters
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed a new rule that would institute federal baseline water quality standards (WQS)...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Anna D’Apolito, Lake Atitlán Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Lake Atitlán is a historically significant body of water that is also known for its beauty and volcanic activity. It enjoys UNESCO designation and is...
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Help Protect American Communities, Air, and Waters From Toxic Power Plant Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to strengthen Clean Air Act (CAA) controls on mercury and other toxic pollution emissions...
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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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Urge EPA to Protect Waterways From Coal-Fired Power Plant Pollution
- By: Kelly Foster
- News
In response to decades of advocacy and litigation by Waterkeeper Alliance and our partners, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now proposing...
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Waterkeepers Meet in Guatamela for Regional Summit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
With stunning views of volcanoes towering over Lago el Atilan, Waterkeepers from seven countries throughout Latin America gathered at high elevation in...
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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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A World Water Day Reflection
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The following is a guest contribution from Bella Pitman, an undergraduate student at Brown University, who joined our delegation at the United Nations...
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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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Tell EPA to Reestablish CAFOs as a National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Every four years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets national enforcement and compliance priorities to focus its resources on the nation’s...