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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
After Years of Community Organizing, Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal and Fracked Gas Pipeline Project is Dead
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Pembina Announces It Has “Decided Not to Move Forward With the Project” and Asks the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Cancel Its Permit Pembina,...
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,...
250+ Organizations Plea With President Biden to Cancel Unprecedented Oil and Gas Megasale in Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
As international climate talks continue, a coalition of 267 organizations – including 36 representing Gulf of Mexico communities – delivered...
Biden Makes Climate Pledge at Glasgow While Pushing Oil, Gas Leasing in U.S.
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
U.S. climate groups slammed the Biden administration today for ignoring climate impacts and refusing to stop oil and gas leasing on public lands despite...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Major New Rules To Cut Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Agency Promises More In the Future to Address Flaring and Marginal Wells President Biden announced at the UN Climate Summit today the U.S. Environmental...
Challengers to Jordan Cove LNG get their day in Federal Court
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Oral argument for lawsuit challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector...
Objections Target Biden’s Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate “Code Red”
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups filed formal objections today to the Biden administration’s plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing...
Chubb is the 16th insurer to cut ties with the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
“Chubb does not provide insurance coverage for any tar sands projects,” a Chubb spokesperson told the Financial Times today. The announcement was...
Open Letter Calls on Insurers to Cut Ties with Trans Mountain, as Key Pipeline Insurance Policy Expires
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Fifteen insurers have ruled out Trans Mountain already; coalition pledges to continue pressuring the remaining companies Today, Indigenous, environmental,...
Coalition Reacts to UN Climate Report, Renews call for Nationwide Ban on Oil Drilling in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
IPCC 6th Report: Scientists articulate dire warnings and extreme costs of societal inaction The Our Islands Our Future coalition today renewed its call...
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...
Hundreds of Groups Demand Biden Name Climate-Focused FERC Commissioner
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
With a Biden nominee on the way, climate activists want the White House to prioritize a shift off fossil fuels Over 320 community, climate, and environmental...
Groups to Biden: Halt New Oil Drilling, Cancel Trump Leases on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Climate, Indigenous and conservation groups today called on the Biden administration to halt new drilling permits and to cancel unlawful Trump-era oil...
Water Protection Groups File Notice to Sue Ameren over Toxic Coal Ash Pollution Violations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper, and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center today announced that they have served Ameren Corporation,...
After Drilling Bust Off The Bahamas, Groups Call for Permanent Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Despite BPC Oil Drilling Failure, Danger from Offshore Drilling Persists The Bahamas Have Dodged a Bullet, Environmental Leaders Say After facing months...
Groups Challenge Trump Administration Sale of 58,000 Acres of Public Lands for Oil, Gas Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Feds ignored effect on groundwater, cumulative climate impacts A coalition of groups today challenged five Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease...
500 Groups Urge Biden to Order Fossil Fuel Leasing Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary Hundreds of conservation, Native American, religious and business groups...
Legal Protest Blasts Trump Administration Plan for 47,000 Acres of Fracking Leases in Colorado
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Leases Threaten Sage Grouse, Climate Pollution Weeks Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban Conservation groups filed a protest today challenging the...
Legal Protest Blasts Plan for 430 Square Miles of Fracking Leases in Wyoming
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Trump Plan Threatens 43 Million Tons of Climate Pollution Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban Citing harm to wildlife, clean air, and the climate,...
Environmental Groups File Lawsuits Against Trump Administration for Toxic Water Pollution Rollbacks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency challenging the Trump administration’s recent rollback...
Act Now: Our Toxic Coal Ash Legacy
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Coal-fired power plants are by far the single largest contributor of toxic pollutants such as arsenic, cadmium, and lead to waterways across the United...
Protect The Bahamas — Say No to Offshore Oil Drilling
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) is planning to open the pristine waters of The Bahamas to offshore oil drilling, exposing the small island nation and...
140 Groups Call on Trans Mountain’s Insurers to Drop the Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Today, 140 organizations representing 24 million people sent a letter to the current insurers of Trans Mountain, urging them to stop insuring the tar sands...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancelled After Years of Activism, Waterkeepers React to the Win
- By: ajcarapella
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
By Julia Widmann and Malaika Elias, organizers at Waterkeeper Alliance In an unexpected series of pipeline-related wins for communities of color and environmental...