News & Updates
Local Leaders Key to Solving Global Climate/Water Crisis
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Climate change means more than heat waves and long summers—it means drought, flooding, food insecurity, geopolitical conflict, warming oceans, sea level...
Oil-Spill Risks from Bayou Bridge Pipeline Highlighted in New Legal Action as Work is Suspended
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
New evidence shows the Army Corps of Engineers failed to independently assess the risk of spills from a company with more than 500 spills, millions in...
Tell Congress: Take Action on Deadly Algal Blooms
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Red tide off Florida has turned beaches into morgues, as scores of dead fish and rotting corpses of marine mammals litter shores. Please call your Representatives...
Energy Transfer Partners PA Explosion Another Example of Poor Pipeline Management
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance points to Energy Transfer Partners’ long history of pipeline accidents Following the early morning explosion today of an Energy...
Waterkeeper Fights to Keep Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeepers challenge industry and Oklahoma AG’s attempts to strip protections from critically important waterways Waterkeeper Alliance, Grand Riverkeeper,...
Keep Poison Out of Our Waterways!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Nearly a decade ago, Waterkeeper Alliance and our partners won an important legal victory that helps keep pesticides from poisoning our waterways. This...
Groups Notify Owners of PA Coal-Fired Power Plant of Intent to Sue Over Pollution in Susquehanna River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Toxic pollutants leaking from coal ash at Brunner Island Power Plant are infiltrating the river, a source of drinking water and popular place for fishing...
Southeast Asia—Doomed by Dams?
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Marc Yaggi and Gaby Segal After the devastating collapse on July 23 of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower installation in Laos’ Attapeu Province,...
Tell the Senate our water systems need an upgrade!
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
The U.S. needs to invest an estimated $1 trillion over the next 25 years to keep the country’s drinking water, sewer, and wastewater treatment systems...
Coalition Files ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Against Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation Coalition Sends ‘Notice Of Intent To Sue’ Alleging Denver Water’s Gross Dam Project Violates Endangered Species Act Yesterday, a coalition...
Belize Phasing Out Plastic Bags and Styrofoam Containers
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Arreini Palacio Morgan, Placencia Lagoon Waterkeeper Two hundred million plastic bags are imported annually by a country the size of New Hampshire,...
Court Upholds National Safeguard for Coal Ash: Nation’s No. 2 Toxic Pollution Threat
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Victory: Ruling Casts Doubt on Legality of EPA’s Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Protections The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision...
Stand up for states’ right to protect water quality!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Bill S. 3303 would significantly limit the power of states to deny projects that would have severe environmental impacts on water quality. Please call...
The Devastation of a Dam — Saving Mississippi’s Pearl River
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Abby Braman, Pearl Riverkeeper After the devastating 1979 Pearl River flood, the Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with developing a flood control...
Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman talks race and the environment | Part 3 of 3
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
This month, Waterkeeper Alliance is focused on telling stories about intersectional environmentalism. In this 3-part series, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer...
Tell CEQ: Don’t Rush Environmental Review!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a monumental law passed in 1970 which requires agencies to research the potential environmental impacts...
Report shows plastic pollution a threat to Texas Gulf Coast
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Diane Wilson, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper For years, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper has reported that a 2,500-acre petrochemical complex...
Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman talks race and the environment | Part 2 of 3
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
This month, Waterkeeper Alliance is focused on telling stories about intersectional environmentalism. In this 3-part series, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer...
Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman talks race and the environment | Part 1 of 3
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
This month, Waterkeeper Alliance is focused on telling stories about intersectional environmentalism. In this 3-part series, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer...
What Trump got wrong about the California fires
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
President Donald Trump’s tweet Sunday saying California wildfires “are being magnified and made so much worse by the bad environmental laws” might...
Tell EPA: Don’t Prioritize Polluters’ Pocketbooks!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
There are costs and benefits to every action taken by the government. For example, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) makes a new rule...
National Wild and Scenic Rivers: Northwest Fork of the Loxahatchee River
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Reinaldo Diaz, Lake Worth Waterkeeper Rivers take us places and not just in the traveling sense; they are often the catalyst to a lifestyle...
Clean Energy Success and Fossil Fuels’ Demise
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Written by Marc Yaggi, Executive Director, and Arielle Chaifetz, Intern The coal industry produces the number one source of toxic waste dumped into U.S....
Help Block the Hostile Takeover of the Supreme Court | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
If Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court is confirmed by the Senate, it will result in a Supreme Court that is heavily biased against...
Civil society network in Thailand demands responsibility from Thai investors in hydropower
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Chiang Khong Conservation Group, a Waterkeeper Alliance Affiliate We are representatives from communities affected by Thai investment abroad, a network...
Help us get a clean funding bill for EPA! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
UPDATE: The Senate passed S. 3073, its Interior-Environment spending package, which includes a slight boost in funding for EPA and is largely free of...
Trump Needs to Learn From Reagan
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Co-written by Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal A large segment of the population breathed a sigh of relief when Scott Pruitt finally resigned his position...
Trump Administration’s New Rule Weakens Toxic Coal Ash Pollution Safeguards
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed yesterday the first rule of its two-part rulemaking to weaken the first-ever federal regulations that provide...
Tell Congress: Put a Stop to Toxic Algae | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Our waterways are being smothered and poisoned by toxic, green slime. All around the U.S., runaway algae growth caused by water pollution is threatening...
Massive Utah Oil Shale Project Threatens Public Health, Water Supply
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups today formally opposed the Trump administration’s plan to facilitate the first commercial oil shale development in the United States,...