News & Updates
Squaw Valley Expands World Cup Weekend with Addition of Toyota Ski ProAm Competition
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
While the top women’s alpine ski racers in the world prepare to descend on Squaw Valley March 10-11 for the Audi FIS Women’s World Cup Giant Slalom...
Declaration on the assassination of Aldemar Parra Garcia
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The undersigning organizations condemn the assassination of Aldemar Parra García and express our deepest condolences to his family. Facts On January 7,...
Ecology’s CAFO Water Quality Permit Sacrifices Public Health, Drinking Water, Shellfish Beds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Location: Seattle Today, a coalition environmental, public health, social justice and public interest advocates and organizations representing tens of...
EPA Expresses “Deep Concern” Over Discriminatory Impacts of Industrial Hog Operations in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
CHAPEL HILL, NC – In a January 12th letter to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), the United States Environmental Protection...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Water Transfers Rule Decision
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance is very disappointed in the Second Circuit’s 2-1 reversal of the summary judgment granted in our favor by the district court,...
Groups Intervene to Protect the Stream Protection Rule
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Washington, D.C.- Today, a coalition of local and national community and conservation groups filed a motion to be allowed to help defend the national Stream...
Coal barge carrying 1,000 tonnes of coal sinks in the Sundarbans World Heritage site
- By: Donna Lisenby
- News
DHAKA, BANGLADESH — On Friday January 13th, the MV Aichgati, a large bulk cargo vessel carrying 1,000 tonnes of coal, sank in the estuary of the Pashur...
NCEJN and Allies Respond to Latest Attack by Hog Industry
- By: ajcarapella
- News
This post originally appeared on North Carolina Environmental Justice Network’s website. Bullies don’t like it when you fight back. For decades,...
Waterkeeper Alliance | 2016 Annual Report
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Thanks to your generous support, Waterkeeper Alliance had a remarkable fiscal year. As of June 30, 2016, Waterkeeper Alliance had 292 Member and Affiliate...
Naropa 2016: A Call to Action to Protect Himalayan Waterways
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
With all of the negative energy, fake news, trolling, hate speech and more invading our daily lives, it is refreshing to take some time to focus on people...
Saving the Surma River from “Going Down the Toilet”
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Sharif Jamil, Coordinator, Waterkeepers Bangladesh After numerous protests from Surma River Waterkeeper, other green voices, local people and...
Trump’s Cabinet Will Throw Us Into Environmental Catastrophe
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
ACT NOW: Write your Senator today and demand they do not approve Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, and Rex Tillerson to Trump’s Cabinet. The facts...
Waterkeeper Alliance Petitions EPA To End Federal Contracts With ExxonMobil
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy
Environmental group says U.S. cannot do business with oil company that intentionally misleads Americans about climate change New York, NY — Today,...
Coalition applauds final denial of Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
MEDFORD, OR – Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of...
Proposed NCDEQ Permit Would Leave 5.9M Tons of Duke’s Toxic Material at H.F. Lee
- By: Matthew Starr
- Climate And Safe Energy
Matthew Starr is the Upper Neuse Riverkeeper based in Raleigh, NC. Before he leaves office, NC Governor Pat McCrory may be leaving one last gift under...
The Legal Reasons DAPL Is Not Dead
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- News
Daniel E. Estrin is General Counsel and Legal Director for Waterkeeper Alliance. Like many concerned citizens, I initially felt great relief on December...
Environmental Groups Challenge NCDEQ For Failing To Respond to Citizen Complaints
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
RALEIGH, NC – Yesterday, Waterkeeper Alliance, Cape Fear River Watch and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) joined together to...
United States’ First Tar Sands Mine Delayed
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Companies and investors reject Utah’s unconventional fuels Vernal, Utah – US Oil Sands Inc., the company attempting to open the United States’...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Decision
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not grant an easement that would have allowed the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross...
North Carolina Communities Impacted by CAFOs Ask EPA to Make A Finding of Discrimination By Year’s End
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Elizabeth Haddix, Senior Staff Attorney, UNC Center for Civil Rights African American, Latino, and Native American residents of Eastern North Carolina...
Do You Stand With Standing Rock? #NoDAPL Month of Action Starts Today!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Water Protectors at Standing Rock are asking for your help with a Month of Solidarity through December. Here’s a few things you can do to help the folks...
Conservation Groups Reach Settlement with Duke Energy on Sutton Coal Ash
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Up to $1.5 million secured for clean water and conservation in the lower Cape Fear Watershed near Wilmington CHAPEL HILL, N.C.–Conservation groups...
“Dirty Dozen” Calls Out Most Threatened Waters in Georgia
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Georgia Water Coalition, a group of more than 230 organizations including Altamaha Riverkeeper, Apalachicola Riverkeeper, Chattachoochee Riverkeeper,...
BNSF Railway will clean up coal pollution in Washington waters
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
A coalition of environmental organizations and BNSF Railway (BNSF) have reached an agreement in principle that will ensure that BNSF starts to clean up...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speaks At Standing Rock Reservation in Protest of Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Waterkeeper Alliance President says pipeline’s inevitable leak will poison drinking water of 18 million STANDING ROCK – Yesterday, to prevent one of...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Launch “The True Cost of Industrial Meat Production” Environmental Justice Video Campaign
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Series captures environmental injustices perpetrated by the pork industry against North Carolina’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — Waterkeeper...
Stop Dakota Access Before It’s Too Late
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Our deadly addiction to fossil fuels and our too slow transition to a clean energy economy is threatening our very existence, and ultimately forces...
We Continue Our Fight
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
As news of yesterday’s U.S. Presidential election reverberates around the world, we want to assure you that it will not deter the Waterkeeper movement’s...
EXPOSING FIELDS OF FILTH
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
After Hurricane, First Detailed Look at Flooding of Feces-Laden N.C. Factory Farms By Soren Rundquist, Director of Spatial Analysis, Environmental Working...
Waterkeeper Alliance Notifies EPA of Intent to Sue to Compel Action on Drinking Water Regulations
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Click here to access the full Notice of Intent to Sue. EPA has missed ten Safe Drinking Water Act deadlines for monitoring and regulating strontium,...