News & Updates
Saving Salmon: Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper
- By: Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper
- News
By Thomas Johansson, Swedish Baltic Rivers Waterkeeper and executive director of the Baltic Salmon Fund The Baltic Sea coast of Sweden is fed by rivers...
Hog Operations Can Follow N.C. Laws and Still Be Liable for Nuisance
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Following North Carolina’s minimal laws governing the disposal of hog waste generated from the state’s factory meat operations does not insulate a...
Groups Move to Defend N.C. Order that Duke Energy Must Clean Up Coal Ash Pollution at Six Sites
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Duke’s Refusal Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills Community groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center moved...
Save Alaskan Salmon: Say No to Pebble Mine
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: The deadline to comment has been extended to July 1, 2019. Waterkeeper Alliance has its roots in fishermen banding together fighting to protect...
Protecting the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous groups fight bad environmental impact assessments
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
In northern Peru, a proposed massive project to dredge Peru’s four most critical Amazonian rivers, the Marañón, Ucayali, Huallaga, and Amazon, is threatening...
Report: James Riverkeeper, Partners, Raise Concerns over Threats from Toxic Floodwaters to Vulnerable Communities
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
Climate change, Toxic Floodwaters (TFW), and communities of color—what do they all have to do with each other? For the James River Watershed: a dismaying...
Worsening High Tide Flooding Washes Pollution into Water Bodies
- By: Miami Waterkeeper
- News
Reposted with permission from Miami Waterkeeper As sea levels rise, high-tide flooding has worsened in many coastal cities on the east coast like Miami....
Salmon Farming Stopped in Yelcho Lake, Patagonia Chile
- By: Futaleufú Riverkeeper
- News
Nearly 10 months have passed since the community of Chaitén received an alert that fishing cages had been installed in Yelcho Lake with the purpose of...
Musician Josie Dunne Joins Zappos and Sperry to Support Waterkeeper Alliance and Combat the Ocean Plastics Epidemic
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Sperry, the iconic footwear brand with a heritage of innovation and love for the sea, and Atlantic recording artist Josie Dunne, known for her personal...
On Earth Day, Rep. Huffman Introduces Bill to Clean Up Postal Service Trucks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Representative Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) today introduced the Federal Leadership in Energy Efficient Transportation (FLEET) Act of 2019, legislation...
Earth Day: Our Growing Water Crisis and the Water Warriors Fighting it
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
When millions of people flooded the streets 49 years ago for the first Earth Day, they were making a path, a path that thousands of local activists have...
LAST CALL! The Clean Water Act Depends on You
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: The Trump administration denied our request to extend the WOTUS comment period, giving us only 60 days to express our fierce opposition to this...
Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Strengthen Rule on Toxic Wastewater from Power Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
EPA must update guidelines for reducing toxic wastewater pollution from steam-electric power plants Siding with environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
North Carolina Riverkeepers Respond to Swine Waste Management General Permit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality released the state’s Swine Waste Management General Permit today, which governs disposal of the...
Willful failure: The Trump administration hits a new low on environmental enforcement
- By: Paul Gallay
- News
Written by Paul Gallay, President and Hudson Riverkeeper. Reposted with permission from Riverkeeper. As New York recommits to clean water, EPA blindly...
Trump’s Executive Order Undermines States’ Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
President Trump plans today to sign an executive order that attempts to limit states’ role in approving permits required for oil and gas projects under...
N.C. Coal Ash Victory: State-Level Peer Pressure
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones was standing before a packed gym of angry people in January, asking North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality...
Texas Could Prevent Future ITC Fires With Vigorous Enforcement
- By: Bayou City Waterkeeper
- News
Written by Bayou City Waterkeeper Executive Director & Waterkeeper Jordan Macha and Legal Director Kristen Schlemmer. Reposted with permission from...
Speak up now to save Clean Water Act protections!
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The last chance to comment on a Trump administration proposal that would gut the Clean Water Act is April 15. The proposal, which has no basis in science,...
Community Nature Preserve Furthers Protection of Nujiang Golden Monkeys in Gaoligong Mountains
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Dianwu Fang, Xingyun Lake Waterkeeper; translated by Waterkeepers China Communication Associate Katherine Olson In June of 2018, after an intensely...
Leave a legacy of clean water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Many Waterkeeper Alliance supporters choose to leave a donation in their wills and trusts as an important way to have long-term impact, without any upfront...
North Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Clean Up its Coal Ash Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Decision Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills After hundreds of North Carolina residents came out to meetings and called for...
Victory! Court Rules in Favor of Blue Water Baltimore and requires EPA to act on Stormwater Pollution
- By: Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper
- News
By Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper Angela Haren. Reposted with permission from Blue Water Baltimore. A federal district court in Maryland ruled last...
On the Frontlines of the Plastics Fight on the Texas Gulf Coast
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Diane Wilson, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and fourth generation Mid-Texas gulf coast shrimper, is keeping busy fighting Formosa Plastic Corporation’s...
How the New Trump Rule Would Harm San Francisco Bay
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
San Francisco Bay’s watershed stretches from the granite tips of the Sierra Nevada to the Golden Gate, covering almost 60,000 square miles and nearly...
Interactive Map: How Trump Proposal Endangers Rio Grande Basin
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
A vast sub-basin of the Rio Grande could lose Clean Water Act protections under Trump proposal The headwaters of the Rio Grande, the nation’s third...
Gunpowder Riverkeeper, Blue Water Baltimore, Essex Middle River Civic Council Concerned about ‘Repowering’ of Maryland CP Crane facility
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Gunpowder Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer Malaika Elias Gunpowder Riverkeeper has been asking for transparency regarding the Maryland...
Act Now to Protect Oregon’s Iconic Rogue River
- By: Rogue Riverkeeper
- News
By Stacey Detwiler, conservation director at Rogue Riverkeeper Southwest Oregon’s Rogue is an iconic river, legendary for its whitewater, rugged wilderness,...
20 Years of Clean Water Wins
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Today, on World Water Day, I can’t help but reflect on the billions of people around the world without access to clean and safe water. But there’s...
The Rio Grande Watershed is at its Ecological Breaking Point. Act to Preserve its Clean Water Act Protection
- By: Rio Grande Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Rio Grande Waterkeeper Jen Pelz The Rio Grande, the third longest river in the U.S., begins as snowmelt in the high peaks of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains,...