News & Updates
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...
Free the Snake River, Remove the Dams
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
Gary Wockner, EcoWatch Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. Buck Ryan, the Snake River Waterkeeper, put it this way, “Removing hydroelectric dams...
Waterkeepers and the Planet at the Crossroads – IUCN World Congress 2016
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
From September 1 to 10, 2016, more than 6,000 people from around the world – representing non-profits, indigenous groups, government, academia, and...
Waterkeeper Alliance Applauds Norway’s Decision to Dump Duke Energy Stocks
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
NEW YORK, NY — September 7, 2016 — Today Norway’s central bank announced that the Norwegian Government’s Pension Fund, worth $900 billion,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Desecration of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Sacred Sites by Dakota Access Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
NEW YORK, NY — September 6, 2016 — This past Saturday, Energy Transfer Partners bulldozed historically and culturally significant Standing...
North Carolina Hog CAFOs Dumping Waste in Advance of Tropical Storm Hermine
- By: Christian Breen
- News
Cape Fear Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Document Violations at roughly 30 CAFOs WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA – September 2, 2016 – On Thursday,...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Waterkeepers Worldwide Stand in Solidarity with Sioux Nation to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
NEW YORK, NY — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance, and 93 Waterkeeper organizations worldwide sent a letter to Standing Rock Sioux tribal leaders...
Testing for Pollution on Climate Stressed Rivers in Ladakh
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
This piece was co-written with Cheryl Nenn, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, and Christine Ellis, Waccamaw Riverkeeper. By July 19, after days of traveling, our...
An Exciting Patrol on Dongting Lake
- By: Min Zheng
- News
On my last visit to China in April 2016, I went on a night patrol with Dongting Lake Waterkeeper DaMing He, aka Brother Ming, on Dongting Lake, a large,...
U.S. EPA Proposes First-Time Measures to Restrict the use of Coal Tar Sealants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Groups call for complete ban on toxic substance that poisons ecosystems nationwide NEW YORK, NY – August 22, 2016 – Waterkeeper Alliance, Conservation...
Environmental Groups Win National Victory for Clean Water
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Agreement reached with EPA to adopt stronger standards in management of industrial stormwater pollution NEW YORK, NY – August 17, 2016 – A coalition...
Deadly Coal Pits of Samarinda
- By: Paul Winn
- News
Samarinda is the capital city of the East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, on the island of Borneo. The city has a rich cultural heritage, warm generous...
Ban Oil Trains For Good
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
This post, “Ban Oil Trains For Good,” originally appeared on The Huffington Post, August 11, 2016. Just a little over two months ago, a disastrous...
Bidding Farewell To Our Summer Interns
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
One of the most exciting things about summer at Waterkeeper Alliance headquarters is the team of interns that we bring on board to learn about the work...