News & Updates
McCrory Administration’s Coal Ash Headline Is Deceptive
- By: Pete Harrison
- News
On Friday the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued a press release titled, “McCrory administration issues coal ash violations...
Progress on Oil Trains and Rail Bridges Chugging Along
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Concerns highlighted in report vindicated Five months after we released Deadly Crossing, a report highlighting the troubling state of rail bridge safety...
MATs Rule Will Protect Waterways and Lives
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
We applaud the Supreme Court’s denial of a request for an emergency stay of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics (MATs)...
Asheville to Lomé: Making Connections Around the World
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
The new issue of of Waterkeeper magazine very quickly has become my favorite issue for many reasons, particularly because our team recorded a group of...
UPDATE: Black River Still at Risk, Hog Industry Still Peddling Deception
- By: Kemp Burdette
- News
About a month ago, I took a trip out to the Black River basin after seeing television ads paid for by the hog industry that talk about how the Black River...
Stoops Creek Spill Update from Congaree Riverkeeper
- By: ajcarapella
- News
On the morning of Wednesday, February 17th while collecting water quality samples, Congaree Riverkeeper discovered a broken force main (large pressurized...
SXSW Eco Announces Keynote Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
SXSW Eco is proud to announce our 2016 inaugural keynote speaker, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President of Waterkeeper Alliance, the fastest-growing global...
Health of the Black River at Risk
- By: Gray Jernigan
- News
Further Water Sampling Exceeds State Safety Levels Again SAMPSON COUNTY — Additional testing conducted by Waterkeeper Alliance and Cape Fear River...
Picture Perfect Day at Liberty State Park
- By: Sandra Meola - NY/NJ Baykeeper
- News
New Jersey is the most densely populated state in our country, which makes preserving our green open spaces even more important. Jersey City, NJ is home...
As Part of BLM Fossil Fuel Auction Protest, Author Terry Tempest Williams Buys Parcels
- By: Lesley Adams
- News
Large-Scale Protest and Activism by Prominent Author Ups the Ante on “Keep it in the Ground” Activism This morning, over 100 local activists protested...
Gov. Brown’s Cozy Ties to Oil & Gas Is a Threat to California’s Coast and Democracy
- By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- News
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | EcoWatch This piece originally appeared on EcoWatch. Gov. Jerry Brown has been quietly maneuvering to oust the California Coastal...
Title VI Must Protect People, Not Corporations
- By: Gray Jernigan
- News
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, our federal government has had the great responsibility of protecting historically marginalized individuals...
Keep It Clean: A Live Comedy Benefit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
Join us in Los Angeles at the Avalon Hollywood on April 21 for our second annual Keep it Clean comedy benefit for Waterkeeper Alliance! This hilarious night...
Statement of Peter A. Harrison to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- By: Pete Harrison
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to address the United States Commission on Civil Rights today. My name is Peter Harrison and I am an...
The Black River Is Not “Pristine”
- By: Kemp Burdette
- News
On Friday, January 22nd, I woke up to learn of an advertisement that was making the rounds that was attempting to discredit environmental groups like mine...
Hog Industry’s Assertion that Black River is Clean Doesn’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
100% of Water From Black River Sampled Exceeded State Safety Levels RALEIGH — Waterkeeper Alliance and Cape Fear River Watch, a Waterkeeper Organization,...
An Act of God: Taylor Energy’s Fatalistic Fairytale
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
On January 20, 2016, Taylor Energy held a public forum on the ongoing oil leak at its wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Lest anyone think that Taylor Energy...
“Coal Ash Stories” Goes To Florida
- By: ajcarapella
- News
Imagine being afraid to drink your water, take a bath, fish, or farm. Toxic coal ash stored across Florida poses exactly these risks and many others to...
Taylor Energy Public Forum Highlights Serious Risks of Offshore Oil Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Taylor Energy argues that oil leak simply cannot be stopped New York, NY and Baton Rouge, LA – January 21, 2016 – Yesterday, Taylor Energy held a...
Word of the Day: Chutzpah
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Word of the day: Chutzpah – shameless audacity. Examples of the word of the day in use: In the Gulf of Mexico, a Taylor Energy well has been...
Confronting North America’s largest oil terminal proposal
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Close to 500 concerned citizens packed a public events center in Spokane Valley, Washington on Thursday evening taking part in a public hearing process...
Call to Obama Administration: Keep Our Oil and Gas in the Ground
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Drilling and Fracking of Oil and Gas on Public Lands a Major Climate Threat, Groups Call for Restraint and Detailed Study Washington, D.C.—Environmental...
Will Climate Change Swamp Cartagena?
- By: Gary Wockner
- Climate And Safe Energy
It’s November 2015 and I’m walking along the streets of Old Town Cartagena, Colombia, just a couple blocks from the Caribbean Sea. It’s supposed...
Groups’ Push for Transparency Results in Public Forum on Taylor Energy’s Decade-Long Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Opportunity for the public to assess response and impacts on ecosystem NEW YORK, NY and BATON ROUGE, LA — January 11, 2016 — Taylor Energy will be...
Citizens groups, state reach historic settlement with Frasure Creek over water pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
Deal sends strong signal to incoming Bevin administration Frankfort, KY – A coalition of citizens groups entered a settlement late last night with Frasure...
New Investigative Report Documents Threat from Oil Trains on Nation’s Neglected Rail Infrastructure
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy
With a 5,000% increase in oil train traffic, Waterkeepers across the U.S. identify significant areas of concern with 114 railway bridges along known and...
Environmental Groups: Federal Government Tried to Hide Serious Harm to Endangered Species from Industrial Cooling Systems
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
Ask court to compel agencies to release original biological opinion finding EPA’s cooling water rule will jeopardize endangered species NEW YORK, NY...
Bangladesh’s Ratargul Swamp Forest Poisoned in Act of Environmental Sabotage
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sylhet, Bangladesh — October 26, 2015 — Unknown culprits have poisoned a prominent canal in the Ratargul Swamp Forest...
USRowing and Waterkeeper Alliance Launch “Row for Clean Water” Initiative
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
PRINCETON, NJ and NEW YORK, NY – USRowing and Waterkeeper Alliance today announced the launch of “Row for Clean Water,” a joint initiative to promote...
Murphy-Brown Faces New Legal Challenge after Ignoring Agreement to Clean Up Hog Farm Contamination
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
CHAPEL HILL, NC –Conservation groups filed a motion in federal court seeking to require Murphy-Brown to comply with a 2006 agreement to clean up groundwater...