News & Updates
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,...
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...