News & Updates
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...
Waterkeeper Groups Petition N.C. to Remove “Swamp Waters” Classification from Lower Cape Fear River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and Cape Fear River Watch, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, petitioned today to remove North Carolina’s “swamp...
We Say: Drop the “Swampwaters” Classification of the Lower Cape Fear
- By: Kemp Burdette
- News
According to observable facts, the lower Cape Fear River isn’t a swamp. According to North Carolina’s Environmental Management Commission, however,...
Proposed Changes to the Clean Water Act Would Imperil Iconic Waters
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The Trump administration wants to strip lakes, streams, and other waterways around the country from protection by the Clean Water Act. The change would...
We Can’t Afford to Lose the Clean Water Act
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
In 1972, waterways in the United States were severely polluted and dangerous. Rivers caught on fire, communities were sickened, and wildlife disappeared....
Tennessee Riverkeeper Takes on a New Fight: Microplastics
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
National Geographic recently ran a piece titled “Alarming’ level of microplastics found in a major U.S. river.” The Tennessee River got a lot...
Hope for a Water-Stressed Middle East
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Co-written by Marc Yaggi & Gabrielle Segal A major water crisis is gripping the Middle East. Freshwater resources are dwindling and more frequent droughts...
Providing Clean Water in China’s Cancer Villages
- By: Min Zheng
- News
Rapid industrialization and scant pollution controls have left China with more than 400 villages where the cancer rate is extraordinarily high. The country...
How N.C. Can Handle Swine Waste Better
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
North Carolina is in the process of revising the permit that governs how 9.5 billion gallons of swine waste are handled at more than 2,000 industrial swine...
‘Red Tide’ Lawsuit Launched After Feds Ignore Wildlife Harms of Lake Okeechobee Discharges
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
U.S. Army Corps to Extend Algae Bloom-triggering Discharges Through 2025 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent...
Utilities Admit Coal Plants in 22 States are Violating Federal and State Pollution Standards by Leaking Toxic Chemicals into Groundwater
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Conservation Groups Seek a Court Order to Stop New Trump Rule from Delaying Closure of Leaking Toxic Coal Ash Dumps Numerous utilities have just disclosed...
Suit Filed to Protect Colorado River and Prevent Dam Expansion in Boulder County
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation Coalition Seeks to Halt Denver Water’s Moffat Project A coalition of conservation groups filed suit today in federal district court seeking...
Investigating Coal Pollution in Puchuncaví, Chile
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
A study by Waterkeeper Alliance and the Maule Itata Coastkeeper of the area near the AES Ventanas coal-fired power plant in Puchuncaví, Chile found toxic...
Protecting the Heart of the Clean Water Act | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Thank you for an amazing year of fighting for clean water! For the last Dive into Democracy for 2018, we wanted to thank all of our engaged readers for...
Keeping poop out of Casco Bay, one pumpout at a time
- By: Casco Baykeeper
- News
Since it was launched in 1995, Friends of Casco Bay’s Vessel Pumpout Program has kept more than 195,000 gallons of raw sewage out of Casco Bay, Maine....
Waterkeeper Cleanup Clears Nearly 100k Pounds of Trash from U.S. Waterways
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
In September, we asked Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates across the United States to participate in a collective cleanup push. Many Waterkeeper...
North Carolina Pipeline Fight: The Art of Organizing
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Haw Riverkeeper Emily Sutton is fighting the MVP Southgate pipeline in her North Carolina watershed, work that doubles as a master class in community organizing....
Tackling E. Coli: Lessons from North Carolina
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeeper groups throughout North Carolina completed a blitz of water sampling this fall, drawing samples in watersheds from the mountains to the coast....