News & Updates
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)...
Waterkeeper Alliance Takes On Ocean Plastic Pollution
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
Plastic pollution is a plague on our earth and in our waters. Americans alone discard more than 30 million tons of plastic a year — and only 8% of...
URGENT: Protect Our Waterways From Aquatic Invaders | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
UPDATE: The Senate is expected to vote on the “Vessel Incidental Discharge Act” (VIDA) the week of April 16, 2018. Please call your Senators as soon...
GRACE’s New Water Footprint Calculator
- By: ajcarapella
- News
This post originally appeared in Ecocentric and is reprinted with permission. By Peter Hanlon Do you know how much water you use every day? Chances are...
URGENT ACTION: Don’t let the timber industry capitalize on disaster | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Save our national forests — clear-cutting is not the answer to wildfires. This Wednesday, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2936, the “Resilient...
Tribes, Landowners and Conservation Groups Intervene in Jordan Cove Pipeline Fight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Last month, Pembina, the Canadian Company behind the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and LNG export terminal filed their Certificate Application with the...
Groups File Lawsuit to Stop New Diversion and Protect Flows in Colorado River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Suit seeks to halt Windy Gap Firming Project and force alternatives A coalition of environmental groups today filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent...
Project Osiris – The Next 20 Years of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
This letter, co-written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & Marc Yaggi, originally appeared in our 2017 Annual Report. Dear Waterkeeper Alliance supporter,...
Defending Marine Protected Areas in Belize
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
Belize — a small country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north, Guatemala to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east — has...
Don’t Let EPA Dismantle the Clean Power Plan | Dive Into Democracy
- 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...
Celebrating 45 Years of the Clean Water Act
- By: Lindsey Muzzio
- News
Today marks an important anniversary not only for waterways across the United States, but for the health and wellbeing of all who reside here. On October...
Protecting the Clean Water Act | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Lindsey Muzzio
- News
The Clean Water Act—celebrating its 45th anniversary this week—is one of the United States’ most influential environmental laws. Prior to this law,...
Swimming 24 Miles for Clean Water in Iraqi Kurdistan
- By: Waterkeepers Iraq
- News
In September, in the midst of major political campaigning in Iraqi Kurdistan for an independence referendum, Waterkeepers Iraq was quietly conducting a...
Legal Protest Targets Trump Fracking Plan That Threatens Colorado River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Conservation groups on Tuesday challenged a Bureau of Land Management decision to auction off more than 27,000 acres of western Colorado public lands in...
2017 Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Join Waterkeeper Alliance in Washington, DC October 26th through 29th for the 2017 Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival! The Bentzen Ball is a three-day festival...
Stop the Dam Attack on Rivers | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
“In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic...
After Groups’ Legal Action, Duke Energy Releases Critical Dam Safety Information for Coal Ash Sites across North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
More than two weeks after local community groups notified Duke Energy that they planned to bring enforcement actions against it for withholding legally-required...
Environmental Groups’ Statement on Duke Energy Finally Giving the Public Legally-Required Information To Prepare for Possible Toxic Waste Spills in Indiana
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
“These toxic coal ash dumps are dangerous, and past spills around the country have been catastrophic. It’s too bad it took the threat of a lawsuit...