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Tell FERC to fix its broken pipeline permitting process! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Rachel Bauer, Legal Intern In December 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced its plan to revisit its permitting policy...
Lawmakers trample on property rights
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
Written by Will Hendrick, staff attorney for Waterkeeper Alliance, and Kemp Burdette, Cape Fear Riverkeeper. This piece originally appeared in the July...
Federal Appeals Court Overturns Bayou Bridge Pipeline Injunction
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned an order halting construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Pruitt Resignation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
In response to the resignation of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator, Waterkeeper Alliance Executive Director Marc Yaggi has issued the following statement:...
A Growing Team of Ladakhis Fight for Clean Water
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
For the first time, Ladakhi citizens in India are able to test for bacteria in their waterways. Trained to test for E. coli, an indicator of harmful disease-causing...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Passage of SB711
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
In response to the North Carolina General Assembly once again voting to prioritize polluters over people by overriding Governor Cooper’s veto and enacting...
Tar Sands Oil Spilling Into Little Rock River Following Doon Trail Derailment
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Following the derailment of 32 train cars carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Stroud, Oklahoma for ConocoPhillips, Quad Cities Waterkeeper...
Stop Jordan Cove: No Fracked Gas Exports from Oregon | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
The Pacific Northwest has been coined the Thin Green Line between fossil fuels and a clean energy future thanks to sophisticated and successful grassroots...
8th Annual SPLASH Event Series, Presented Nationally by Toyota
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
We’re thrilled to announce the locations of our 8th Annual SPLASH Event Series, presented nationally by Toyota! Presented nationally by The 2018 season...
Alaskan Salmon Is Worth More Than Gold | Dive Into Democracy
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Peter D. Kalicki. Peter received his B.A. from Columbia University and plans to focus on environmental law during law school. He currently serves as...
New Analysis Finds Groundwater Contamination from Oklahoma’s Coal Ash Dumps as Pruitt Faces Deadline to Decide Whether to Let State Handle Oversight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Other States Plan to Ask Pruitt to Transfer Oversight of Toxic Coal Ash Dumps As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces the deadline of tomorrow to decide...
Advocacy Groups Call on Governor Cooper to Veto SB711
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Following the North Carolina General Assembly’s rushed passage of SB 711, which would strip rural North Carolinians of their constitutional right to...
3 Ways EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Protects Polluters Instead of Public Health
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
This article was made possible by the readers and supporters of AlterNet. Pruitt’s disastrous policies threaten the safety of the nation’s...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Push to Slash Protections for Waterways, Wetlands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging two regulations that weaken Clean Water Act protections for rivers, streams, wetlands, and other...
Sperry Partners with Waterkeeper Alliance in Ongoing Effort to Support Global Sustainable Water Program
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Sperry, the American footwear and lifestyle brand, announces today its ongoing partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance in support of a multi-faceted water...
HSBC Makes $250,000 Grant to Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and HSBC today announced a $250,000 grant that will support the Waterkeeper Alliance mission of keeping critical local waterways clean...
Don’t let Congress lock the public out of the courts!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Our Founding Fathers created three branches of government as a system of checks and balances. Waterkeeper Alliance and U.S. Waterkeeper groups often turn...
Widespread Fraud Uncovered in North Carolina Hog Industry
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
An investigation by two state agencies revealed efforts to cook the books and mislead regulators about the content of 55 waste lagoons at 35 hog operations...
North Carolina Water Sampling Reveals High Bacteria Levels near Industrial Animal Farms
- By: Will Hendrick
- News
In North Carolina, we love our waters. And as the summer heat approaches, many of us look forward to a dip in the local swimming hole, a paddling adventure,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Announces 8th Annual SPLASH Event Series, Presented Nationally by Toyota
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Thousands of Americans celebrate the importance of clean water by getting out on their local waterways to swim, paddle, race, fish, and make a SPLASH!...
Tell Us Your Pollution Story
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Over the past year and a half, we have seen an unprecedented number of attacks on public protections from both the Trump Administration and some members...
Scott Pruitt: Get Smart
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Maxwell Smart and Scott Pruitt share two things in common: bumbling ineptitude and a love of top-secret phones, albeit a shoe phone in Mr. Smart’s case....
Proposed Allen Permit Fails to Protect Catawba River from Coal Ash
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The draft water pollution permit issued by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality for Duke Energy’s Allen plant on the Catawba River...
Cook Inletkeeper: On the front lines of climate change and not backing down
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
My son and I will soon board a ferry in Washington State and travel north through the fabled Inside Passage into the great wilderness that is Alaska. Glacial...
Relentless in the Pursuit of Poisoning our Waterways | Dive Into Democracy
- 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. In National...
EPA wants to create a massive Clean Water Act loophole | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Imagine this scenario: a company releases pollutants from a pipe a few feet short of a waterway. The pollutants do not directly discharge into the waterway,...
China enlists local groups in environmental enforcement push
- By: Paul Gallay
- News
By Hudson Riverkeeper Paul Gallay, reposted with permission from Riverkeeper Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Invited to Share US Experience On October...
With Groundbreaking Title VI Settlement Signed, North Carolina Environmental Justice Organizations Vow to Continue Their Fight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental justice groups announced today that they reached a settlement agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental...
A bridge between homelessness and clean water
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the lack of time to effectively contribute to the wide range of problems we see in the world. The recent 50th anniversary...
An Interview with Peconic Baykeeper Sean O’Neill
- By: Malaika Elias
- News
In the following interview, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer Malaika Elias speaks with Peconic Baykeeper Sean O’Neill to discuss the adverse effects...