News & Updates
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...
Environmental Groups Reach Settlement in North Carolina Public Records Act Case
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
In a major win for transparency, the Southern Environmental Law Center and Waterkeeper Alliance today announced they have reached a settlement in a dispute...
Keep Politics Out of Science | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
In March 2017, a bill ironically called the HONEST Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill purports to create greater transparency surrounding...
Proposed Revisions to WOTUS Reduce Clean Water Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
EPA and the Corps’ attempts to revoke Clean Water Act protections from waters is an illegal effort that puts drinking water and public health at risk...
EPA Withholding Public Information; Groups File Freedom of Information Suit Over America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
First, EPA abruptly abandoned protections to prevent toxics from being dumped into our waterways — now, the agency is illegally keeping information...
Environmental Groups’ Statement on Duke Energy’s announcement that it will now provide legally-required information to the public on toxic waste spills
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Earthjustice, Southern Environmental Law Center, and our clients are pleased that Duke Energy now says it will comply with the law, and provide the required...
Hawai‘i and China Connect on Maui
- By: Min Zheng
- News
This summer Green Zhejiang, the parent organization of Qiantang River Waterkeeper, once again brought a group of students to Hawai‘i to explore its culture...
Healthy Waterways Need A Healthy Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Many of the actions we have covered in Dive into Democracy are inspired by Members of Congress or the Trump administration putting the profits of a few...
Groups to Sue to Compel Duke Energy to Stop Withholding Required Toxic Waste Spill Safety Information
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
TERRE HAUTE, IN – To protect communities from toxic waste disasters, Earthjustice today sent out letters notifying Duke Energy and government authorities...
Duke Energy Violates the Law by Hiding Critical Dam Safety Information
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Information Withheld for Coal Ash Sites across North Carolina CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— Local community groups across the country today sent Duke Energy and...
Duke Energy Violates National Coal Ash Rule by Hiding Critical Dam Safety Information
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
WASHINGTON— Local community groups across the country today sent notices that they plan to bring enforcement actions against Duke Energy for withholding...
Strong Environmental Review Protects Us All!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), is a monumental law passed in 1970 to ensure that decisions made by federal agencies that will impact the...
Waterkeepers Fighting Harmful Algal Blooms From Coast to Coast
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Kai Olson-Sawyer | This post originally appeared on the Ecocentric blog and is reprinted with permission. America’s waterways are as different...
Build Barriers to Protect Our Great Lakes From Invasion, Our Jobs Are At Stake
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Lake Erie Waterkeeper Sandy Bihn, EcoWatch Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. Before President Trump took office, a barrier designed...