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Searching for the world’s only freshwater porpoise
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Katherine Olson, Communications Associate with Waterkeepers China As the motorboat skims across the surface, Dongting Lake lake stretches infinitely...
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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...
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Environmentalists Seek Timeline for Disney’s Lighthouse Point Environmental Assessment
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
On October 27, 2020, the Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign released a letter to the Bahamian Minister of the Environment and Housing and Dr. Penning,...
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Why you should care about seabed mining
- By: Twin Harbors Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Lee First, Twin Harbors Waterkeeper. Originally published by Twin Harbors Waterkeeper. “What are we sacrificing by looking at the deep sea with dollar...
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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...
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Protecting the Clean Water Act is more important than ever
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance. Originally published in The Hill. This month in 1972, President Nixon vetoed the bipartisan...
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Pipelines for Hog Waste Gas are Dirty Energy
- By: Jill Howell
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Jill Howell, Pamlico Tar Riverkeeper, Sound Rivers Our nation is moving away from dangerous pipelines — and it’s a move for the better. In July,...
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Protecting, Preserving, and Restoring the Floodplain
- By: Matthew Starr
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper. Originally published by Sound Rivers. We still have more than a month left in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season,...
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Proposal Filed With Federal Court to Ensure U.S. Army Corps Addresses Harm to Endangered Species From Toxic Lake Okeechobee Discharges
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Algal Blooms Triggered by Releases Harm Wildlife, Coastal Communities Conservation groups filed a proposal in federal court today to ensure that the U.S....
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A Win for the Marañón River? Enel asks Peruvian Government to terminate dam contract
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Future of Critical Amazon River Tributary Still in Danger A global energy company with a concession to build a dam on the Marañón River, a major tributary...
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Show your appreciation for environmentally conscious farmers
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
A lot of folks in North Carolina produce meat. The state ranks second nationally in pork production and is among the nation’s leaders in poultry production....
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A win for the Marañón? Energy company moves to terminate dam contract, but what will the Peruvian government do?
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
One of the companies with a concession to build a mega dam on the Marañón River, the main hydrological source of the Amazon, has formally asked the Peruvian...
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New Life for Hann Bay
- By: Tom Quinn
- Clean Water Defense | News
Senegal’s Hann Bay was once a sparkling jewel with white sand beaches that ran from the industrial port of Dakar about eight miles to the outskirts of...
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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...
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Newly Released Video Shows Tranquil Villages That Would be Flooded if Marañón Dams are Built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Marañón Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance released a video that takes viewers to tranquil villages on the floor of Peru’s remote Marañón Canyon,...
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Get Out the Vote: Mobilize Your Friends
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
You’re likely to be someone who votes in every single election, the type of person campaigns call a super voter. Now is the time to recruit your friends...
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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...
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Georgia Waterkeepers Ask Citizens to “Vote Yes on Amendment 1”
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Julia Widmann, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer, Gulf and South Atlantic Regions Photos by Joe Cook Waterkeepers in Georgia are asking Georgia citizens...
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Super voters, assemble! It’s up to all of us to participate in our democracy.
- By: Will Hendrick
- Clean Water Defense | News
You have it in your power to increase voter turnout. And you can do it just by having conversations with people you already know. Start by talking to...
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River Patrol at Your Fingertips: Exploration that Transcends Time and Space
- By: Gan River Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Written and photographed by Gan River Waterkeeper Translated by Katherine Olson, Waterkeepers China Communications Associate Originally published by the...
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Ratificación del Acuerdo de Escazú y la protección de los ríos amazónicos
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- News
Por María Sembrero de Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR), Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper Los ríos amazónicos han sufrido terribles impactos, producidos...
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The Ratification of the Escazú Agreement and the protection of Amazon rivers
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- News
By María Sembrero of Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) — parent organization of Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper The rivers of the Amazon have...
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The safety of environmental defenders depends on the Escazú Agreement
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
“Last Friday, Roberto Carlos Pacheco Villanueva was assassinated. He and his father, Demetrio Pacheco, had been threatened by illegal miners and invaders...
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Lawsuit Challenges New NEPA Regulations that Shield CAFOs from Environmental Review
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Extreme changes to the regulations have widespread consequences for animals, surrounding communities, and the environment Today a coalition of rural advocacy,...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on Latin American, Caribbean Leaders to Ratify Treaty Protecting Environmental Defenders
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Read in Spanish / Leer en español Latin America has Become Most Dangerous Place in the World for Environmental Activists In response to an increase in...
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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...
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Disney Downgraded by Friends of the Earth Due to Proposed Lighthouse Point Project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Every year, Friends of the Earth (FoE), a major American environmental group, issues an environmental report card for all of the major cruise lines. While...
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Waterkeeper Alliance responds to Facebook’s Climate Commitments
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
This new policy is a small step forward but does not address the larger climate disinformation crisis hiding in plain sight. “We applaud Facebook for...
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Act Now for Factory Farm Reform
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
From sick workers in slaughterhouses to empty shelves at grocery stores, the coronavirus pandemic further exposed a food system in crisis. We deserve farm...
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Sign to save the source of the Amazon!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Read in Spanish / Leer en español Planned dams on Peru’s Marañón River, the hydrological source of the Amazon, would flood farms and caves containing...