Fossil Fuels
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Insurers Must Address World’s Greatest Threat by Supporting Green and Fair Recovery
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
NGOs warn industry risks repeating mistakes made when it identified pandemic danger. Insurers must champion a green and fair recovery from the COVID-19...
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A Silver Lining in the Time of Coronavirus
- By: Boulder Waterkeeper
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
By Ted Ross, Boulder Waterkeeper and Pacific Region Waterkeeper Council Representative While we are still in the midst of a critical public-health phase...
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Now’s Our Chance: A Future Free of Fossil Fuels
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
UPDATE 5/13/2020: This post has been updated to reflect that the “Resources for Workforce Investments, not Drilling (REWIND) Act,” a comprehensive...
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Listen to the Past: Don’t Drill Paradise
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. This week marks the 10th Anniversary...
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Oregonians Unite to Demand Rehearing on Jordan Cove LNG Federal Approval
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The Klamath Tribes, affected landowners, and public interest organizations request rehearing on fracked gas export terminal and pipeline in southern Oregon....
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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...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Mercury Emissions Rollback
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize its plans to undermine its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards regulations, which protect...
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Stay inside, support Cook Inletkeeper and the Bears of Amakdedori
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Everyone remembers the first “activist” sticker they put on their car, right? Well, I do. It was a “NO Pebble Mine” sticker that I put on the bumper...
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Liberty Mutual Faces Pressure to Exit Tar Sands from Policyholders, Climate and Indigenous Rights Groups
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Broad coalition pledges to ramp up the campaign on Liberty Mutual following inaction at the company’s annual policyholder meeting Today, at its annual...
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5 clean water wins in the New York State Budget
- By: Hudson Riverkeeper
- News
Originally published by Riverkeeper. Reposted with permission. By Jeremy Cherson, Legislative Advocacy Manager for Riverkeeper There is good news for clean...
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Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Tells the “Seismic Truth”
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Larry Baldwin believes you deserve to know the truth about seismic testing and offshore drilling. Larry knows how dangerous seismic...
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Tell EPA: Stop Bailing Out Big Coal!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Not only is the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to allow coal-burning power plants to release more coal ash toxins into our...
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North Carolina Settlement Results in Largest Coal Ash Cleanup in America
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Community Groups, N.C. DEQ and Duke Energy Reach Settlement to Clean Up Coal Ash at Six North Carolina Sites The Southern Environmental Law Center today...
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Hope for the Nairobi River
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers from 16 countries and four continents gathered in Nairobi in November to learn from each other and presenters including the acting director...
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A Pivotal Year For Clean Water
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
In 2019 we saw monumental attacks on federal clean water protections. The Trump administration is advancing plans to eliminate Clean Water Act protections...
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Insure Our Future Campaign Targets Liberty Mutual, Top Fossil Fuel Insurer
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Following the release of the 2019 Insurance, Coal, and Climate Change Scorecard, demonstrators visit Liberty Mutual offices in Boston and Seattle Today,...
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No More Coal Ash Toxics in Our Waters!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
For decades, coal-fired power plants have profited from being allowed to dump unlimited amounts of toxic coal ash pollutants into our waterways, pushing...
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Waterkeepers Fighting Climate Change: Eight Projects Making a Difference
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
U.S. Waterkeepers are fighting climate change by working to protect the areas they love best from rising seas, ocean acidification, and fossil fuel industry...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Trump Administration’s Coal Rollbacks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The rulemakings will release hundreds of millions of pounds of toxins into waterways The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new...
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We deserve a voice on our public lands!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Public lands are required to be managed by the federal government to benefit the United States public as a whole, ideally in a way that protects those...
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Mitigate Oil Pollution
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Save the Bays. Reposted with permission from Save the Bays As our islands become more populated, the demand for energy increases, however, this should...
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Stop EPA’s Latest Assault on Our Health and Our Planet: Oppose Weakening of EPA’s Methane Rule
- By: Kate Hudson
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Responding to pressure from the White House and the fossil fuel industry, EPA is putting protection of our health and our planet on the chopping block...
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Just Weeks Left to Stop the Biggest Climate Disaster on the Columbia River
- By: Columbia Riverkeeper
- News
By Kate Murphy, community organizer at Columbia Riverkeeper Meet Dylan Haviv. He’s a 10-year-old climate activist who wants Washington state to stop...
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Stop the Spread of Coal Ash Contamination!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The Trump administration’s weakening of public protections from coal pollution is not saving the dying coal industry and has done nothing to help struggling...
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Oklahoma Floods: A Reminder of How the State Abdicated its Duty to Protect Us
- By: Grand Riverkeeper
- News
By Earl Hatley, Grand Riverkeeper at Local Environmental Action Demanded (“LEAD Agency”) Widespread flooding in Oklahoma in late May served as a reminder...
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Groups Announce Historic Coal Ash Cleanup Agreement with Brunner Island
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Brunner Island Power Plant Owners Agree to $1 Million Penalty, Largest Ever Assessed in PA for Coal Ash Pollution Four environmental groups today announced...
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Call for our Coasts and Climate
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In early 2018, the Trump administration announced plans to expand the areas open to offshore drilling. These plans would increase drilling in the Gulf...
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Put an End to Oregon’s Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitter
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
For over a decade, communities and groups like Rogue Riverkeeper in Oregon have been fighting a proposal for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility...
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Aerial Photographs of Flooded Infrastructure in the St. Louis Region
- By: Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper
- News
By Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels. Republished with permission from Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel...
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10 Big Local Wins Against Dirty Energy
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Waterkeepers around the world fight for clean water. As Waterkeeper Alliance turns 20, we’re looking at some of their biggest wins. These fights are...