News & Updates
Through Wind, Rain and Heat – Waterkeepers March For Climate Justice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On April 29th, 2017, an extraordinary gathering of passionate people emerged in towns and cities across the world to march for climate justice. Over 200,000...
Groups Sue To Block Trump Rollback of Safeguards For America’s Worst Toxic Water Pollution Source
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Discharges from Coal Plants to Public Waters Increase Cancer and Brain Damage Risk WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of environmental and public health...
Waterkeepers Gathered to Honor Our Water at the People’s Climate March
- By: Waterkeepers Chesapeake
- News
By Robin Broder, Waterkeepers Chesapeake Board Member Reposted with permission from Waterkeepers Chesapeake What an amazing weekend in DC! Thanks to the...
Fighting for the Right to Stop Pollution in the Bay
- By: San Francisco Baykeeper
- News
Reposted with permission from San Francisco Baykeeper Baykeeper is opposing a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Congress that would make it harder for...
Statement of Maia Raposo to EPA’s Office Of Water
- By: ajcarapella
- News
*Waterkeeper Alliance participated in EPA’s Office of Water public listening session, “Reducing Regulatory Burden,” on May 2, 2017. Hi,...
Save EPA | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
On top of trying to remove the regulatory safeguards that industry finds too costly, the Trump administration is also launching an effort to weaken –...
President Trump’s Offshore Drilling Executive Order an Affront to Coastal Communities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
NEW YORK, NY – President Trump issued an Executive Order today that begins the process of vastly expanding offshore oil and gas drilling. Called...
Environmental Groups to Sue EPA Over Unsafe Waters in New York City
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Lax Oversight Allows City and State to Evade Health Protections, Continue Massive Sewer Overflows NEW YORK, NY — A coalition of New York City and regional...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA Regulatory Reform Process
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today requesting an opportunity to discuss...
New nationwide coalition unites to stop Energy Transfer Partners
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Impacted groups including Native Americans, landowners, environmental justice communities, and allies fight to #StopETP Today, a diverse coalition of...
People Before Profits | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Powerful and wealthy corporations and industry trade groups have been flooding the Trump administration with requests to gut critical public health and...
Get In The Streets – Join Us At The Peoples Climate March!
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Whether it is rising sea levels, ocean warming and acidification, or changing weather patterns, climate change impacts every single one of us, and hurts...
EPA seeks to dismantle regulation of America’s largest source of toxic water pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
In a personal response to a request from a syndicate of the country’s biggest and richest power companies, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt...
Environmental groups fight New York DEC’s toothless permits for industrial animal facilities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Current permits fail to protect drinking and recreational waters from untreated animal waste at industrial animal facilities Today Waterkeeper Alliance,...
Pollution or Profit? The True Cost of Doing Business
- By: North Sound Baykeeper
- News
By North Sound Baykeeper Lee First Reposted with permission from Whatcom Watch Online When the pressure is on, we have to increase our resolve to work...
Legal Protest Targets Trump’s Fracking Plan of 100,000 Acres in Colorado
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Fracking Threatens Colorado River, Endangered Species, Climate, Rocky Mountain National Park and Dinosaur National Monument Conservation groups have filed...
CAFOs Ordered to Report Hazardous Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
DC Circuit Court orders EPA to close dangerous loophole for concentrated animal feeding operations Today, the DC Circuit Court ordered the Environmental...
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....
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...