News & Updates
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...
Waterkeeper Alliance Investigates Coal Pollution Spill at Cliffside Power Plant
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Cleveland County, NC — Waterkeeper Alliance and Broad River Alliance, a Waterkeeper Alliance and MountainTrue Affiliate, responded yesterday to a...
Curing China’s “Cancer Villages”
- By: Min Zheng
- Clean Water Defense
Shadowing Mr. Huo, the Upper Huai River Waterkeeper, also known as the “Huai River Guardian (淮河卫士)” in China, on a typical patrol day was,...
His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, Live to Love International and Waterkeeper Alliance Launch Himalayan Initiative to Protect the Waters of Ladakh and Himalayas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Building a movement to gather data necessary to combat the impacts of climate change on the, the Himalayas, the world’s largest freshwater resource LADAKH,...
At the Sacred Rooftop of the World with Himalayan Glacier Waterkeeper
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
This piece was co-written with Cheryl Nenn, Milwaukee Riverkeeper. Flying over some of the world’s most spectacular and impossible mountain terrain,...
A Clean Water Initiative for the Himalayas – The Third Pole
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance, in partnership with Live to Love International and Himalayan Glacier Waterkeeper, founded by His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, head of...
What’s Up With The Algae Bloom That Led To Florida’s State of Emergency?
- By: Rachel Silverstein
- News
Rachel Silverstein is the Executive Director & Waterkeeper of Miami Waterkeeper. This post originally appeared on Miami Waterkeeper’s blog. The...
Waterkeepers Respond to California Oil Spills
- By: Donna Lisenby
- News
Sea level rise, super storms and ever more deadly fire seasons are increasing as climate change tightens its grip on communities around the globe. Oil...
North Carolina Riverkeepers Blast NC Senate Plan to let Duke off the Hook for Coal Ash Cleanups
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
This afternoon, an anti-environmental faction within the North Carolina state senate suddenly introduced a bill that would effectively repeal key provisions...
Fields of Filth: Landmark Report Maps Feces-Laden Hog and Chicken Operations in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance, North Carolina Riverkeeper organizations and Environmental Working Group collaborate on unprecedented GIS initiative showing the...
Sixth Annual “Celebrate the River” Student Art Contest Held at the Americana Hotel in Nogales, AZ
- By: Blue Evening Star
- News
The Sixth Annual “Celebrate the River” Student Art Contest was a huge success! Hosted by Friends of the Santa Cruz River, a Waterkeeper Alliance Affiliate...
Remando Juntos
- By: Benjamin Webb
- News
Marañón Waterkeeper is paddling to save the source of the Amazon from 20 massive hydro dams. The strongest movements start with people, whether they...
“Luck” Is Not An Oil Train Disaster Plan
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
On Friday, June 3, a train carrying Bakken crude oil, which was fracked in North Dakota and bound for a refinery in Puget Sound, derailed and exploded...
Waterkeeper Alliance and iSow Announce Strategic Partnership
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Waterkeeper Alliance and iSow today announced their strategic partnership, bringing together the largest and fastest growing nonprofit solely focused...
Waterkeepers Bangladesh and London Waterkeeper Partnership Launched
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On the fourth day of the 2016 Waterkeeper Alliance global conference, Buriganga Riverkeeper, Surma River Waterkeeper, Khowai River Waterkeeper and London...
Saving The St. Lawrence
- By: Lee Willbanks
- News
This post originally appeared on AmericanRivers.org, as part of their America’s Most Endangered Rivers® series spotlighting the St. Lawrence River....
SweetWater Brewing Company To Give $100,000 For Clean Water Initiatives
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Save Our Water Campaign to Generate $100,000 in Matching Funds for $200,000+ Total ATLANTA – SweetWater Brewing Company is broadening its annual Save...
Miles Offshore With Nowhere To Hide
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
On Thursday, May 12, an estimated 88,000 gallons of oil leaked from a pipeline leading to a Shell platform 97 miles off the coast of Louisiana was detected...
Court voids discharge permit for proposed Big Box store
- By: Michael Howell
- News
On Monday, May 16, Helena District Court Judge Mike Menahan ruled in favor of the non-profit organizations Bitterrooters for Planning (BfP) and Bitterroot...
Waterkeeper Alliance Statement on NC DEQ Coal Ash Classifications
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
McCrory administration ignores state law deadline for Duke Energy coal ash cleanups RALEIGH, NC — May 18, 2016 — Today the North Carolina...
Keeping the Magic of the Bahamas
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Growing up in landlocked Pennsylvania, I always was enamored with the marine environment. The Bahamas in my mind were a magical and mythical archipelago...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper React to Shell’s Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
NEW YORK, NY and BATON ROUGE, LA, May 13, 2016 —- An underwater pipeline at a Shell oil drilling platform has spilled 90,000 gallons of oil into...
Transcript Sheds Light on Deceptive North Carolina Do-not-drink Advisories
- By: Pete Harrison
- Climate And Safe Energy
McCrory Administration ignored and overruled advice of State Epidemiologist on coal ash toxin, put interests of polluters over public health RALEIGH, NC...
International coalition issues urgent appeal to save Bangladeshs people and tigers from Rampal coal plant
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Over 70 NGOs from 29 countries send urgent appeal to Exim Bank of India not to finance Rampal coal plant Nijmegen, Netherlands – A global coalition...
Toxic Legacy: Monsanto and PCB Contamination
- By: Kelly Foster
- News
“But, the most important thing about PCB’s … is that we have identified a mad dog—a known bad actor in the case of PCB. There is no doubt...
First Criminal Axe Falls on Flint: Three Government Workers Charged in Toxic Lead Cover-Up
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- News
News broke yesterday that criminal charges have been filed against three government workers who allegedly concealed and/or conspired to hide the extent...
Wabash Riverkeeper Update on Diesel Spill
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
** Video of plume much farther upstream than indicated by Marathon, available here. Plume still visible near the leak as of Tuesday evening LAFAYETTE,...