News & Updates
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...
Building Bridges, Not Walls. Connecting with our Baja Waterkeepers
- By: Sergio Moncada
- News
With the recent flurry of news about the “great, great” wall that President Trump hopes to build along the U.S.-Mexico border, not much has been said...
Buy Art. Save Water.
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Hundreds of clean water supporters and collectors gathered at Sotheby’s on February 6, 2017 for Art for Water benefitting Waterkeeper Alliance. The celebration...
Art for Water – February 6, 2017
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Urs Fischer, Mark Grotjahn, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, and Other Renowned Artists Auction Works to Benefit Waterkeeper Alliance at Art for Water – February...
Will This Wild, Secret Himalayan River Be Dammed?
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
The Karnali River – Nepal’s biggest and last free-flowing river, and the sacred headwaters of the Ganges – is threatened by a massive dam Megh Ale...
Pruitt Will Help Dismantle Our Environmental Protections
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
This morning, Republican Senators on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee green-lit Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator despite objection...
Correcting Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Record – David Page, Oklahoma Environmental Attorney
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By David P. Page I have practiced environmental law in Oklahoma for over 30 years. During this time Mr. Pruitt has, with regard to environmental issues,...
Iraqi Waterkeepers Impacted By “Muslim Ban”
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
It has been just a little over a week and the Trump Administration has acted with speed to open the door to fast track Dakota Access Pipeline and welcome...
Mountain Watershed Association Appeals Rustic Ridge Deep Mine Permit
- By: Youghiogheny Riverkeeper
- News
By Krissy Kasserman, Youghiogheny Riverkeeper. A version of this post originally appeared on Youghiogheny Riverkeeper’s blog. On Friday, January...
Scott Pruitt is unfit to serve as EPA Administrator
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Attorney Kelly Foster spoke as an expert witness on a panel discussion held last Tuesday by Senate Democrats on the United...
EPA Media Freeze Puts Lives At Risk
- By: Donna Lisenby
- News
Yesterday, the Trump administration ordered specific prohibitions banning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing press releases, blog...
ACT NOW: EPA Is In Danger
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Yesterday, Senate Democrats on the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hosted a panel discussion to further examine U.S. Environmental...
Senate Democrats to Host Panel Discussion on Pruitt Nomination
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
*MEDIA ADVISORY* Ranking Member Carper, Senate Democrats to Host Panel Discussion on Pruitt Nomination WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the committee hearing...
President Trump’s Pipeline Orders Threaten Public Waters
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Today, President Trump signed presidential memorandums to advance construction of the Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines that will threaten the...