News & Updates
Sperry and Waterkeeper Alliance Partner on New Sustainability Initiative
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
To combat the world’s growing ocean plastic epidemic Sperry, the iconic footwear brand with a heritage of innovation and a love for the sea, and...
Waterkeepers Florida Committed to Protecting Sunshine State Waters
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Written with Jen Lomberk, John S. Quarterman, Lisa Rinaman, and Kelly Cox. Regional entity Waterkeepers Florida came together early February for an in-person...
Defend Missouri’s Maramec Spring Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Maramec Spring is the center of a popular Missouri park, with 1,860 acres of forests and fields, and a well-attended annual Kids’ Fishing Day, where...
Statement of Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Kansas Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels, Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz braved icy roads to testify in...
In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...
Act Now – Don’t Let Trump Give Our Public Lands to Big Oil’s Bernhardt
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | News
UPDATE: A Senate vote to confirm David Bernhardt for Secretary of Interior could happen as soon as Wednesday, April 10 or Thursday, April 11. ACT NOW and...
Statement of Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Lake Worth Waterkeeper
- News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels (left), Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz (right) braved icy roads...
Act Now to Save Montana’s Big Hole
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Big Hole is movie beautiful, running 155 miles from headwaters in Southwest Montana’s Beaverhead Range down the verdant Big Hole Valley, tumbling...
Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille at Risk of Hazardous Material Train Derailment
- By: Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper
- News
By Sharon Bosley, Communications Associate, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper Lake Pend Oreille is the fifth deepest lake in the United States and one of the...
Trump’s Clean Water Act Puts Revitalization of Buffalo River at Stake
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Activists in Buffalo poured their hearts into resuscitating the Buffalo River, which was declared dead in 1967, willing it back to life. When they began...
Colorado Riverkeeper and Affiliates Play Key Role in John Wesley Powell 150th Anniversary River Expedition
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Rica Fulton, Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate 150 years ago, John Wesley Powell and his motley crew traveled into the “great...
Lawsuit Launched Over Massive Utah Oil Shale Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Project Threatens Endangered Species, River Flows, Climate Conservation groups today issued a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for approving...
Changes to Clean Water Act Would Threaten Idaho’s Little Lost River
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Near the edge of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, bordered on one side by the Lost River Range, the highest in Idaho, the Little Lost...
Trump’s WOTUS Puts Cape Fear at Risk
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Stocking Head Creek’s headwaters are a forest spring. Once this tributary to North Carolina’s Cape Fear River leaves that forest, however, its sources...
Trump’s WOTUS Definition Attacks the Heart of the Clean Water Act
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Trump administration is implementing its treacherous strategy to eliminate Clean Water Act protections for waters—and communities—across the country...
Tell the Cooper Administration: Hold Industrial Hog Polluters Accountable
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
For decades, North Carolina has allowed industrial hog polluters to dump massive amounts of raw hog sewage in open pits, then regularly spray it onto nearby...
New Investigation: Recent Explosion of Poultry Factory Farms in N.C. Piles Manure from 515.3M Chickens Onto Waste From 9.7M Hogs
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
As State Reviews Standards for Managing Hog Waste, It Must Take Little-Regulated Poultry Waste Into Account North Carolina, a state known for the devastating...
Under the Radar
- By: ajcarapella
- News
New Data Reveals N.C. Regulators Ignored Decade-Long Explosion of Poultry CAFOs By Soren Rundquist, EWG Director of Spatial Analysis and Don Carr, EWG...
Australia’s Waterkeepers on Drought, Fish Kills, and the Murray-Darling Basin
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Andrew Kelly (Yarra Riverkeeper), John Forrester (Werribee Riverkeeper), April Seymore and Neil Blake (Port Phillip Baykeeper) From 1996 to 2010, Australia...
Millions Threatened, But No Action from EPA
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Everyone should be able to turn on their tap, fill a glass, and drink the water with confidence it’s safe. Unfortunately, throughout the United States,...
Waterkeeper Groups Sue EPA on Tap Water Safety
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Regulator has missed Safe Drinking Water Act deadlines for toxic and carcinogenic contaminants Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeepers Chesapeake, and California...
The Bipartisan Beginnings of the Clean Water Act
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the dark hours before dawn on Oct. 18, 1972, U.S. Senators and Representatives took the floor, one by one, to defy their president. The debate that...
An Anniversary Worth Commemorating
- By: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
- News
By Kira Redmond, executive director of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. Reposted with permission by Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. Fifty years ago today was...
Atchafalaya Advocates Ask Federal Judge to Block Bayou Pipeline as Floodwaters Rise
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Energy Transfer Partners continues long-standing pattern of permit violations and environmental destruction in America’s largest wetlands Energy Transfer...
Communities United: Assateague Coastkeeper Organizes around Community Healthy Air Act
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
Last spring, Assateague Coastkeeper Kathy Phillips was engulfed in a 16-week losing battle to get the Maryland Senate and House to pass legislation requiring...
Keep It Clean
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Join us in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 21, 2019, for the fifth annual Keep it Clean® comedy benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance! New this year,...
Saving Loreto Bay
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
The good news is that Loreto Bay is getting healthier, thanks in part to the work of Loreto Coastkeeper, our Waterkeeper Alliance Organization in Loreto,...
Help Us Shut Down Polluter Handouts
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
As the month-long government shutdown carries on, the impacts continue to grow. Government workers are going without pay, parks are being trashed, and...
Waterkeepers: Protectors, Safeguards, Caretakers of Great Lakes Drinking Water
- By: Grand Traverse Baykeeper
- News
By Grand Traverse Baykeeper Heather Smith The time to fight for clean and healthy Great Lakes drinking water is now. The mighty Great Lakes. The largest...
Clean Water Act: Excuses for Proposed Rollback Don’t Withstand Scrutiny
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The Trump administration’s proposals stripping some waterways of Clean Water Act protection have no basis in law or science. Many of the administration’s...