News & Updates
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,...
2016 Gulf and South Atlantic Regional Retreat Recap
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
At the end of October on the sprawling grounds of the Georgia Wildlife Federation Alcovy Conservation Center in Covington, Georgia, 41 attendees representing...
Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on President Obama to Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline and Uphold the Rights of Water Protectors
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Today, in a letter to President Obama, Waterkeeper Alliance called for the President, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to order an immediate halt...
Waterkeeper Alliance Update: Lab Analysis Detects Dangerous Metals from Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Update on lab results Scientists at Appalachian State University used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to visualize samples of the spilled coal ash...
Another Duke Energy coal ash spill discovered into the Neuse River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — Waterkeeper Alliance and Sound Rivers have discovered a large coal ash spill into the Neuse River from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper at Sound Rivers Respond to News of Coal Ash Release from the Duke Energy H.F. Lee Facility in Goldsboro, NC
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
BREAKING NEWS RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — Late on Friday afternoon, Duke Energy informed the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Conduct Aerial Patrols, Document Hog Waste Contamination and Flooded Coal Ash Ponds
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — Waterkeeper Alliance continues to activate its Rapid Response protocol with 13 North Carolina Riverkeeper organizations...
The Coal Mine and the Town It Will Swallow
- By: Paul Winn
- News
It’s not easy to admit for a coal campaigner, but after 10 years of sustained campaigning, my home town of Newcastle, at the mouth of the Hunter River...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Respond to Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Breach of Quaker Neck Lake
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Today, Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper are responding to and documenting the breach of a 1.2-billion-gallon cooling pond dam at Duke Energy’s...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Respond to Hurricane Matthew Flooding in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Offering opportunities for aerial flights over impacted areas RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — As treacherous floods continue to devastate North Carolina...
Conservation Groups Obtain Agreement Requiring Coal Ash Removal from Duke Energy’s Buck Plant
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Yadkin Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, have reached a settlement with...
Nearly 70 Organizations Call On President Obama To Protect The Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Groups Call for the Gulf to be Excluded from the Five Year Plan New Orleans, LA — Today, nearly 70 groups sent a letter to President Obama, urging...
Pipeline Protests: Many Tools, One United Goal
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Written by Natalie Jensen, Legal Intern, Clean and Safe Energy Campaign After years of growth amidst opposition from concerned citizens, fossil fuel pipeline...
Inspiration In The Year Of The Monkey
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Earlier this month, Waterkeeper Alliance’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Sharon Khan, and I traveled to remote Ladakh, India in the northern reaches of...
Civil Rights Report Calls Out EPA’s Chronic Failure to Protect Most Vulnerable Communities
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Confirms impacts and cost of coal ash pollution are borne disproportionately by nation’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — September 23,...
Judge Finds Taylor Energy Improperly Limited Third-Party Review of Information Surrounding Ongoing Oil Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
As oil slick appears to grow larger, company violates terms of settlement agreement NEW ORLEANS, LA — September 22, 2016 — United States District...
Unquiet Flows the Mahanadi
- By: Ranjan Panda
- News
Ranjan Panda in the Mahanadi River Waterkeeper, based in Odisha, India. India’s Mahanadi River Waterkeeper Ranjan Panda has started an initiative to...
Taylor Energy: Still Leaking Oil and Still Secretive
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
As oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico appears to intensify, Taylor Energy breaches terms of its settlement agreement. Despite signing a settlement agreement...