News & Updates
Hartnett White Still Unfit to Lead Council on Environmental Quality
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Co-written by Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal UPDATE: The White House withdrew its nominee Kathleen Hartnett White to head the Council on Environmental...
Adding Insult to Injury: More Offshore Drilling, Less Oversight | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Not only is the Trump Administration proposing to massively increase the offshore areas open to oil and gas drilling, it also wants to let drilling companies...
Protect the Public Lands We Love | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Powerful polluters have many resources at their disposal to sway government decisions in their favor. Often companies will influence decision-makers both...
NC DEQ Allows a Delay of Toxic Pollution Limits in Permit for Duke Energy’s Marshall Coal Ash Site in Lake Norman
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
In response to legal action by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Sierra Club, and Waterkeeper Alliance,...
Bayou Bridge Fight Heads to Federal Court
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Complaint alleges government failed to consider irreparable harm to Atchafalaya River Basin Representing the interests of the millions of people who use,...
Trump Is Giving Our Oceans to the Oil Industry
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Over the summer, we alerted you that at the direction of the Trump administration, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) was beginning to develop...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Offshore Drilling 5-Year Plan
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Trump administration today announced its proposal to open the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic Sea to offshore drilling....
Environmental Groups Reach Settlement with State Regarding Response to Citizen Complaints
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Yesterday, Waterkeeper Alliance, Cape Fear River Watch and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), represented by Elizabeth Haddix and...
Thank You for Your Commitment to Clean Water | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
We launched Dive into Democracy in March of 2017, at a time when we were becoming overwhelmed by a deluge of federal legislative and policy developments...
Trump Administration Grants Permits to Extend DAPL Through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, Threatening Jobs and Water Quality
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The New Orleans District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers today issued a permit authorizing Bayou Bridge Pipeline, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer...
No More Budget Limbo | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
After wasting time pushing forward a disastrous tax plan, Congress is now scrambling to keep the federal government funded. Funding was set to run out...
Is Bitcoin Destroying Tibet’s Rivers?
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
As the price of Bitcoin reaches record highs, an eerie underworld of Chinese computer hackers has descended on the Himalayas to exploit the cheapest electricity...
Trump’s EPA Nominee Is So Bad, Even His Supporters Say No
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Written by Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, passed under the Obama administration in 2016,...
Court Orders Evaluation of Murphy-Brown Hog Operations Identified as Threats to Groundwater
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Conservation Groups Seek Cleanup of Murphy-Brown’s Pollution in 3 Eastern NC River Basins Yesterday, a federal court agreed with conservation groups...
Tell the Trump Administration: National Parks are for Everyone!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
“There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in...
Dongting Lake Waterkeeper: Protector of the Finless Porpoise
- By: Dongting Lake Waterkeeper
- News
By BingXiu He, Dongting Lake Waterkeeper With a round head, charming smile, and lively character, the Yangtze finless porpoise is easy to fall in love...
In North Carolina, We’ve Seen How Pruitt’s Appointee Advises
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Matthew Starr and Catawba Riverkeeper Sam Perkins Scott Pruitt’s recent decisions to purge EPA’s Science Advisory Board...
Are You Ready for #GivingTuesday?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Tomorrow, November 28 is #GivingTuesday, which means we have 24 hours to turn an ordinary Tuesday into something more. That is why we are so excited to...
Robbing Our Future to Pay the Rich | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance was founded to ensure the protection of one of our greatest natural resources—water—so all can safely enjoy and benefit from our...
Hydropower is NOT Clean Energy: Dams and Reservoirs are Major Drivers of Climate Change
- By: Kate Hudson
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
On November 8, 2017, the House of Representatives approved a bill, H.R. 3043, that defines hydropower as a renewable energy source and fast-tracks the...
Stop a Toxic EPA Nominee! | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
UPDATE—December 14, 2017: After bipartisan opposition, Michael Dourson sent a letter withdrawing his nomination to serve as head of the EPA’s Office...
Stand with Water Protectors & Reject Keystone XL!
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By John Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeeper One year ago, I stood in solidarity with thousands of Water Protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota to stop the...
Litter Along Our Rivers
- By: Waccamaw Riverkeeper
- News
Litter can be a personal issue. For some, the shock of seeing local wildlife munch on plastic bags spurs them to volunteer for beach clean-ups. For others,...
Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Responds to Keystone Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Yesterday, TransCanada’s Keystone 1 pipeline spilled at least 210,000 gallons of tar sands oil in South Dakota, just days before the Nebraska Public...
Leading insurance companies divest $20 billion from coal and end underwriting
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Scorecard finds most insurers still failing to take action on coal to prevent dangerous climate change Leading insurance companies have pulled $20 billion...
COP 23: U.S. Remains Only Nation to Reject Paris Agreement
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By James D. Flynn, Esq. Jamie received his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and is pursuing an LL.M. in environmental and energy law at New...
Labrador Waterkeeper on “Big Dams, Big Damage” Tour to Highlight Muskrat Falls
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
As an Oregonian, I’ve long heard epic and heartbreaking stories about Celilo Falls on the Columbia River. Straddling the border of Oregon and Washington...
Public Interest Groups Oppose EPA’s Third Attempt to Shield CAFOs From Disclosing Hazardous Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Last week, Earthjustice, representing Waterkeeper Alliance, The Humane Society of the United States, Sierra Club, Center for Food Safety, and Environmental...
Pruitt Works for Industry — Not Our Waters
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Co-written by Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is rapidly changing. Science is being driven out and big industries...
SECURE Act is a Public Lands and Waters Giveaway to Dirty Industry
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Today, the House Natural Resources Committee will vote on the Strengthening the Economy with Critical Untapped Resources to Expand American Energy (SECURE)...