News & Updates
Dive Into Democracy | April Congressional Recess
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
The April congressional recess starts today and hopefully you’ve had a chance to locate the town halls hosted by your Members of Congress (MoCs). If...
Cook Inletkeeper Stands Ground, Wins Against Coal and Gas
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
Alaska is blessed with wild and spectacular natural amenities, but logging, mining and other extractive industries have long taken a toll on its landscape...
Dive Into Democracy | Gearing Up for Town Halls!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
From April 10-21, 2017, Members of Congress (MoCs) will be returning home to their districts, which means there will be opportunities for you to attend...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
Today, President Trump signed an executive order that will have grave climate impacts. The order rolls back many Obama Administration initiatives to curb...
Dive Into Democracy | An Attack On Citizen Suits
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Citizen suits are an essential tool for the work that Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates do. When Congress created environmental laws like the Clean...
Waterkeepers Unite on the Rivers of Nepal
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
Written with contributions from Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper, and Christine Ellis, Deputy Director of Waccamaw Riverkeeper In April 2015, a...
Waterkeepers Unite Around the World
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance supports an incredible group of 314 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates, throughout 35 countries, spanning 6 continents. The...
Rising Appalachia Releases Music Video, Honors World Water Day
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Atlanta-born, Appalachian-bred, New Orleans-seasoned soulful Folk/World troubadours Rising Appalachia released their latest music video today in honor...
The Terry Backer Award – Celebrating Waterkeepers Worldwide
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Waterkeeper story began along the banks of the Hudson in 1966 when commercial and recreational fishermen – many of them veterans – united...
Dive Into Democracy | Week of 3.20.17
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Dive Into Democracy is Waterkeeper Alliance’s weekly roundup of current attacks on America’s clean water protections and how to take action. Want...
The Top 10 Ways Scott Pruitt Can Hurt the Nation’s Largest Estuary
- By: Waterkeepers Chesapeake
- News
Waterkeepers Chesapeake is a coalition of 19 Waterkeeper, Coastkeeper, Shorekeeper and Riverkeepers from around the Chesapeake Bay watershed. We asked...
Clean Water Needs EPA
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
On the spring day of April 22, 1970, more than 20 million Americans took to the streets to demand clean water, clean air, and other environmental protections....
From Polluter to Model Farmer: The Hog Waste on Radish Hill
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Xin Hao, Ding Fan, and Mei Xiu of Qiantang River Waterkeeper Mr. Dong, a staffer of Qiantang River Waterkeeper, typically works around the clock patrolling...
Trump’s Misrepresentation of WOTUS – And Why It Matters
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
On February 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to begin a series of actions, long sought by industry, that will allow uncontrolled discharges...
Industrial Hog Operation Murphy-Brown Refuses to Clean up Its Pollution in Three Eastern North Carolina River Basins
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Conservation groups today filed a motion in federal court seeking to require an industrial hog operation, Murphy-Brown, to comply with a 2006 agreement...
Dive Into Democracy | Week of 3.13.17
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Dive Into Democracy is Waterkeeper Alliance’s weekly roundup of current attacks on America’s clean water protections and how to take action. Want...
When Government Won’t Stop Illegal Pollution, We the People Can (For Now)
- By: Pete Harrison
- News
Over the last 45 years, the Clean Water Act and other federal environmental laws have dramatically reduced pollution and improved living conditions across...
The Bay is Under Threat from Washington D.C.
- By: San Francisco Baykeeper
- News
By San Francisco Baykeeper Sejal Choksi-Chugh, from the March 2017 edition of Bay Crossings Amid the drama of alternative facts and security leaks, the...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Anti-Clean Water Executive Order
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Continuing the administration’s dangerous march toward the destruction of federal clean air and water protections, today President Trump signed an executive...
Nation’s First Lawsuit Filed Against EPA’s Scott Pruitt
- By: Columbia Riverkeeper
- News
By Columbia Riverkeeper Brett VandenHeuvel, EcoWatch Reposted with permission from EcoWatch Thursday, Columbia Riverkeeper filed the nation’s first...
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Has One Clear Demand: Ban Fracking Now
- By: Waterkeepers Chesapeake
- News
Written by Katlyn Clark of Waterkeepers Chesapeake. For the past few years, Waterkeepers Chesapeake has worked to prevent horizontal hydraulic fracturing...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Executive Order to Slash Regulations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On the heels of Steve Bannon declaring that the Trump administration selected particular Cabinet nominees to intentionally destroy their federal agencies,...
The Dam Truth
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
From Oroville to Hoover Dam – Seven Reasons Why Climate Change Will Undermine Dams and Reservoirs as a Source of Water and Electricity Ten years ago...
Environmental groups challenge Ecology’s new permits for industrial dairies
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On Feb. 17, 2017, a coalition of environmental groups filed an appeal with the Washington state Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) challenging the...
As Okla. Attorney General, EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Did Nothing to Protect Oklahomans from Toxic Swine Waste
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense
By Kelly Hunter Foster, Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Attorney, Melanie Benesh, EWG and Wicitra Mahotama, EWG Oklahoma has a dangerous and widespread groundwater...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Scott Pruitt’s Confirmation as EPA Administrator
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the U.S. EPA — an agency he has sued 14 times in the past 6 years to block its...
Our Baja Waterkeepers Protect the Beauty of Baja California
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance in partnership with the California-based International Community Foundation (ICF), Environment Now, and California Coastkeeper Alliance...
Scott Pruitt’s “Federalism” Plan for the Environment is Dangerous
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Jason Aamodt Scott Pruitt’s federalism plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a dangerous game of pollution without representation. ...
Act Now to Stop the Repeal of the “Methane Rule”
- By: Kate Hudson
- News
Senate Republicans move to repeal the Methane Rule, put protection of our environment and taxpayer financial interests on the chopping block Today, the...
Stand Together and Resist Pipelines
- By: Pete Nichols
- News
On Wednesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted the final easement allowing Energy Transfer Partners to proceed with construction of the Dakota...