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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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Tell EPA to Finalize the Strongest and Most Durable Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule that would charge oil and gas companies for excessive climate-harming...
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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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We Must Urge Congress to Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2023!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Representative Jared Huffman (CA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) recently reintroduced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, a sweeping but common-sense...
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Who Is Waterkeeper: Angie Rosser, West Virginia Headwaters Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Angie Rosser is the West Virginia Headwaters Waterkeeper and also the Executive Director of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. She grew up in Ohio and...
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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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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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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 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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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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Waterkeeper Alliance Celebrates EPA’s Decision to Veto Pebble Mine and Protect Bristol Bay’s Irreplaceable Watershed
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance celebrates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its Final Determination for the Pebble Deposit, which...
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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: John Peach, Upper St Lawrence Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The St. Lawrence River is an international border, with Ontario, Canada on one side, and the U.S. state of New York on the other. It connects Lake Ontario,...
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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...
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Waterkeepers Bahamas: Guarding Against the Oil Industry’s Advances
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Waterkeepers Bahamas was established in 2014 to ensure the waters of the Bahamas are safe for swimming, fishing and drinking for future generations of...
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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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Biden Administration Flouts Climate Goals with Inflation Reduction Act’s First Onshore Oil, Gas Lease Sales
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The Biden administration is working against U.S. climate goals and failing to protect communities, water and wildlife by auctioning oil and gas leases...
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Tell Congress to Reject Manchin’s ‘Dirty Deal’ to Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In exchange for his vote to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act last month, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has demanded a vote on a second bill...
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Help The Bahamas Say NO to Offshore Oil Drilling – Once And For All
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Bahamas could send a message to the world – by banning oil drilling now. As Planet Earth spirals toward climate catastrophe, the math is clear:...
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Conservation Groups Call for Petroleum Policy Improvements, Better Transparency and Full Accounting of Dispersants Used, Following Exuma Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
In response to the July 20 oil spill on Great Exuma, a coalition of environmental groups lauded the fast response, but called for improved spill prevention...
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Legal Protests Target Biden’s Plans To Resume Oil, Gas Leasing on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines Biden’s Climate Goals, Campaign Promises Climate, conservation and community groups from across the country filed administrative...
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Coalition Doubles Down on Call for Oil Drilling Ban Following Recent UN Climate Report
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
IPCC Scientists declare: We can halve emissions by 2030. Today, the Our Islands Our Future coalition is reaffirming its position with regard to a permanent...
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Help Keep Mercury Out of Our Waters!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rule reaffirming that enforcing Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) from power plants...
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Legal Petition Calls On Biden to Phase Out Federal Oil, Gas by 2035
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
More than 360 climate, tribal, religious and conservation groups petitioned the Biden administration today to use its executive authority to phase out...
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Water Advocates Call for Government Transparency, Ban on Oil Drilling in Climate-Vulnerable Nations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
A renewed call today by the Our Islands Our Future coalition to the Bahamian government for transparency and a permanent ban on oil drilling highlights...