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300 Diverse Advocacy Groups Endorse the Farm System Reform Act and Urge Quick Passage in Congress
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
With food and farm systems in crisis, leading food, agriculture, animal welfare, and environmental groups call for a halt to new factory farms and smart...
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Asthma, flies, and the stench; what hog operations do to Eastern North Carolinians
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Neighbors of industrial swine operations have repeatedly — and successfully — made the case that the stench, flies, and day-and-night rumbling of trucks...
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Weaving Together a Community Through Sustainable Farming
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper The way Isaiah Allen tells the story, the man at The Eddy’s bar had a deep farmer’s tan, sweat dried around his collar,...
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Just Do It: VOTE
- By: Malaika Elias
- Clean Water Defense | News
When the right to vote in the United States was first granted in 1776, white male property owners were the only class of people that were eligible. In...
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Conservation Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Attack on the Power of States and Local Residents to Protect Clean Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups today challenged in federal court a Trump administration rollback of clean water protections that sharply curtails the ability of...
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Forest protectors of Tongbai Mountain, the birthplace of the Huai River
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Waterkeepers China Communications Associate Katherine Olson When Yalun, the program director for Upper Huai River Waterkeeper in China, told me we’d...
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Two Inches Of Rain Was All It Took
- By: Kemp Burdette
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Two inches of rain was all it took to send three million gallons of hog feces and urine coursing from Sampson County’s B&L Farms to Starlins Swamp,...
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Suspension of Pollution Monitoring
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
EPA Failed to Consider Impacts on Imperiled Species Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today over the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
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Yadkin Riverkeeper on the Clean-Water Reasons to Support Sustainable Farms
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Edgar Miller, Executive Director of Yadkin Riverkeeper The early days of the pandemic brought disturbing, hard-to reconcile, news: On the one hand,...
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Urgent Action: Put an End to Pebble Mine!
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- Clean Water Defense | News
We have one last chance to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, its world-renowned salmon runs, and its Native communities. Take action today to...
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Funding Hydropower Projects will Not Fight Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
There is a new significant threat to our free flowing rivers and our climate: the promotion of hydropower under the guise that it is clean, renewable energy...
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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...
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Eagle-Eye View: Innovative applications for river protection
- By: Gan River Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Dan Liu, Gan River Waterkeeper Gan River Waterkeeper is in constant pursuit of innovation. Traveling 550 miles, the Gan River is the longest river in...
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Amazon Waterway: New risks for the river guardians under the pandemic
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Liliana García & Verónica Portugal, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) Photos by Rolando Mondragón/DAR Deep in the Amazon, the people...
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Conservationists Intervene To Oppose New Dam Project Near The Grand Canyon
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
New hydropower project would harm Little Colorado River and endangered species A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion to intervene today to...
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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...
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A Chilling Message: Keep Away from Water’s Edge
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Brian Fannon, Yadkin Riverkeeper The message from local officials about a pond near Lake Norman last summer was chilling: “Keep away from the water’s...
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EWG and Waterkeeper Alliance: Poultry Factory Farms Disproportionately Threaten Black, Native American, and Latino People in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
113 Million Chickens and Turkeys in Three Eastern Counties Alone The predominantly Black, Native American, and Latino residents of three eastern North...
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UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth: Factory Farms Disproportionately Threaten Black, Latino, and Native American North Carolinians
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Sarah Graddy, EWG Communications Director; Ellen Simon, Waterkeeper Alliance Advocacy Writer; and Soren Rundquist, EWG Director of Spatial Analysis1...
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Accenture Announces U.S. Innovation Challenge Winner
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
University of Virginia team wins with an innovative project to fight plastic pollution in waterways A team of undergraduate students from the University...
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New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañón River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer...
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Sign the petition: Support the Climate Action Plan
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
We can’t wait another second to address climate change! Climate change is the largest and most imminent global threat facing us today. And yet, Trump...
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Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign Challenges Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, and Environmental Injustice in its...
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In it for the Long Haul: Saluting Waterkeeper Heroes
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
In a world where so much seems to be measured in dollars and cents, (or Euros or Kenyan Shillings or Peruvian Sols), we quantify our work differently. ...
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What’s in your water: check before you swim
- By: ajcarapella
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Will Hendrick, Waterkeeper Alliance senior attorney and manager, and Gray Jernigan, Green Riverkeeper. Photos by MountainTrue. What’s in the water...
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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...
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Angels in the Courtroom
- By: Min Zheng
- Clean Water Defense | News
To celebrate the first anniversary of its historic legal victory against a tannery operation that had been illegally dumping its sludge in nearby farmlands,...
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The Yarra: A Journey Towards Ecological Restoration
- By: Yarra Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Andrew Kelly, Yarra Riverkeeper A federal grant was recently awarded to the Yarra Riverkeeper Association to begin the process of rewilding the Yarra...
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Demand Insurance Giants Stop Underwriting the Trans Mountain Pipeline
- By: Chris Wilke
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
You have an important opportunity to stand for climate action, while defending clean water and Indigenous rights: Join us in demanding that insurance giants...
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“Biogas” Won’t Lead to a Cleaner, Greener North Carolina
- By: Kemp Burdette
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
By Kemp Burdette, the Cape Fear Riverkeeper at Cape Fear River Watch Smithfield Foods, a $15 billion company, has a plan to profit from hog waste. That...