Environmental Justice
Waterkeeper Alliance Holds “Fly-Over” in North Carolina to Get Better Look at CAFO Crisis
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Recently, Waterkeeper Alliance held a “Fly-Over” in North Carolina. With the help of South Wings, and accompanied by a half dozen other local...
Dive Into Democracy: 2022 Year In Review
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Through our Dive Into Democracy blog and email series, we informed and engaged our U.S. audience on the most pressing clean water issues of the day. In...
Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper and the Tough Path to Environmental Justice in Colombia
- By: Liliana Patricia Guerrero Ramirez
- News
The values that inspire us at Bocas de Ceniza Waterkeeper and guide our actions are: justice, peace, equity and respect for Mother Earth (water, soil,...
Op-Ed: We Must Shut Down Factory Farms to Protect Clean Water and Environmental Justice
- By: Gloria Reuben
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
by Gloria Reuben For years, Americans have been served an image of an idyllic family farmer who is responsible for the food that makes its way to our homes....
New Book From Corban Addison Highlights the CAFO Crisis in North Carolina
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, the latest book from Corban Addison, documents the horrendous, unjust, and often untold story of how...
The Tough Path to Environmental Justice in Colombia
- By: Liliana Patricia Guerrero Ramirez
- News
The values that inspire us and guide our actions are: justice, peace, equity and respect for Mother Earth (water, soil, air, wildlife); which, despite...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to the Congressional Spending Bill’s Extension of Polluter Loopholes for Industrial Animal Agriculture
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Daniel E. Estrin, General Counsel and Advocacy Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, released the following statement: The omnibus spending bill recently signed...
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...
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...
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)....
International, American, and Bahamian Environmental Groups Slam Disney for Stifling Public Debate over Controversial Cruise Ship Port in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Friends of the Earth US, and four Bahamian environmental groups — reEarth, BREEF, Save the Bays, and Waterkeepers Bahamas — expressed...
Public Health Experts, Conservationists Ask Mexico’s Highest Court to Uphold Suspension of 49,000-Hog Industrial Animal Operation in Yucatán Peninsula
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Efforts Support Constitutional Claims Raised by Mayan Children MEXICO CITY, Mexico— Conservation groups, scientists, doctors, and public-health experts...
Deadline Looming for Public Comments on Disney’s Controversial Cruise Port in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
The Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign is urging the public in The Bahamas and across the world to submit comments on Disney’s...
Bahamian Environmental Groups seek an extension of the public consultation process for Disney’s draft EIA for the Lighthouse Point project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On March 26th, the partners of the Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign wrote to the Bahamian Minister of the Environment requesting...
United States: ‘If we continue to place our own individuality at the centre of our existence we will collapse on ourselves’
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Alicia Kroemer. Originally published by Minority Rights Group International in Minorities and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology. Featuring...
Environmentalists Urge Prime Government of The Bahamas to Consider Fully their Revised Draft 2020 EIA Regulations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On October 9th, Waterkeepers Bahamas, reEarth, BREEF, Save the Bays, and Waterkeeper Alliance sent an open letter to Prime Minister Minnis requesting that...
Hog and Poultry Waste Threat in N.C. Has Gotten Worse Since Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s industrial meat operations pose a greater environmental threat today than they did when Hurricane Florence hit the state in 2018. And...
The River That Made Seattle
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
“Cummings brings the river and its history to life… A must-read for anyone who wants to know the story flowing through Seattle.” –...
Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman talks race and the environment | Republished
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
As the U.S., once again, grapples with its racist past and present, we’re focusing on what we can do to build a more just and inclusive environmental...
We have to do more to fight racism.
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
What is it we must do to make our own movement more just? As we in the U.S. share the righteous anger of our fellow Americans after repeated incidents...
DEQ Report Shows N.C. Must Do More to Protect Communities Near Industrial Hog Operations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Civil Rights Complainants Say New Report Shows Where State Protections Continue to Fall Short North Carolina acknowledges it must do more to remedy the...
10 Years After the BP Disaster, Still Fighting Offshore Drilling and Environmental Injustice
- By: Julia Widmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Ten years ago today, on the evening of April 20, 2020, the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. This horrific catastrophe...
Tell NC’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board: Waste from Industrial Pork and Poultry Hurts People
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
The nearly 10 billion gallons of waste hogs in North Carolina produce each year taints our clean water, stinks up our fresh air, and hurts our people —...
Would N.C.’s Hog Operations Treat Neighbors Better if there were McMansions Next Door?
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, looked at his crowded courtroom, and spoke from the heart. “If...
Tell N.C. to Take Action on Environmental Justice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Everyone should be able to cultivate a garden, open her windows, or join a church picnic on a sunny day. For the neighbors of North Carolina’s industrial...
Community, Environmental Groups File Constitutional Challenge to Laws Limiting Individual Property Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental and community groups today filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against industrial hog operations,...
Report: James Riverkeeper, Partners, Raise Concerns over Threats from Toxic Floodwaters to Vulnerable Communities
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
Climate change, Toxic Floodwaters (TFW), and communities of color—what do they all have to do with each other? For the James River Watershed: a dismaying...
20 Years of Clean Water Wins
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Today, on World Water Day, I can’t help but reflect on the billions of people around the world without access to clean and safe water. But there’s...
The Green New Deal: What Does it Mean for Water?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal With 2018 being the fourth-hottest year on record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years on record having occurred since 2001,...
Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman talks race and the environment | Part 3 of 3
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
This month, Waterkeeper Alliance is focused on telling stories about intersectional environmentalism. In this 3-part series, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer...