News & Updates
New Book From Corban Addison Highlights the CAFO Crisis in North Carolina
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, the latest book from Corban Addison, documents the horrendous, unjust, and often untold story of how...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to West Virginia v. EPA
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
“This ruling is a gift to polluters and will pose a major threat to clean water.” The decision issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court in West...
AP Coverage of Waterkeeper Drone Tactics
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Earlier this month at the Waterkeeper Alliance Global Conference, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper Brent Walls led a drone training sessions for interested Waterkeeper...
Lawsuit Challenges Biden’s Resumption of Oil, Gas Leasing on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines Biden’s Climate Goals, Campaign Promises Climate and conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Biden...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Matt O’Malley, San Diego Coastkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Matt O’Malley is the San Diego Coastkeeper, though he grew up on the other side of the country in a highly urbanized area of New Jersey. He can remember...
Beach Cleanups in Cabo Pulmo and La Ribera, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- By: Montserrat Arreola
- News
Cabo Pulmo Coast Waterkeeper carried out five beach cleanups from October 2021 to March 2022. On October 23rd, we carried out our first cleanup, after...
The Tough Path to Environmental Justice in Colombia
- By: Liliana Patricia Guerrero Ramirez
- News
The values that inspire us and guide our actions are: justice, peace, equity and respect for Mother Earth (water, soil, air, wildlife); which, despite...
Clean Water Advocates File SCOTUS Brief to Defend Clean Water Act Protection for Waters of Significant National Importance
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper, Bayou City Waterkeeper, and 47 additional Waterkeeper groups from across the country filed an amicus brief...
Congress Must Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced last year in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This bill represents...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Cyclopure to Test More Than 130 American Waterways for PFAS Contamination
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The partnership includes a multi-phase, nationwide monitoring initiative to investigate the prevalence of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ and post study...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Jen Lomberk, Matanzas Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Jen Lomberk grew up in Florida, a state known for the many out-of-state people who relocate there. She describes herself as a child of the state’s waterways,...
Legal Protests Target Biden’s Plans To Resume Oil, Gas Leasing on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines Biden’s Climate Goals, Campaign Promises Climate, conservation and community groups from across the country filed administrative...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Greg Remaud, NY/NJ Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The NY/NJ Baykeeper is unlike most other Waterkeepers in that it doesn’t protect just one waterway. Rather it protects some of the many waterways that...
A River of Trees: Guarding Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana is a distributary of the Mississippi River. It contains the biggest wetland swamp and largest continuous wetland forest...
EPA Must Confront Largest Unaddressed Source of Water Pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Nonpoint source pollution is the largest unaddressed source of water pollution in the country. This type of contamination typically happens when rain and...
Help Ensure All Communities Have Clean Water Act Protections!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing new Financial Capabilities Assessment guidance for establishing a community’s ability to...
Protecting Chile’s South-Central Coast
- By: Maule Itata Coastkeeper
- News
Maule Itata Coastkeeper has been a member of Waterkeeper Alliance since 2008. Our watershed is located on the south-central coast of Chile and borders...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Jen Pelz, Rio Grande Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
As the name suggests, the Rio Grande is a big river. It runs from the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, through national parks like Big Bend,...
Coalition Doubles Down on Call for Oil Drilling Ban Following Recent UN Climate Report
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
IPCC Scientists declare: We can halve emissions by 2030. Today, the Our Islands Our Future coalition is reaffirming its position with regard to a permanent...
Help Keep Mercury Out of Our Waters!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rule reaffirming that enforcing Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) from power plants...
Waterkeeper Alliance and Sustainable Fashion Label, Blue & Yellow, Announce a Special Partnership
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
In honor of World Water Day, Blue & Yellow, a sustainable Northern California apparel brand, and Waterkeeper Alliance, a U.S.-based international nonprofit...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to the Congressional Spending Bill’s Extension of Polluter Loopholes for Industrial Animal Agriculture
- By: Daniel E. Estrin
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Daniel E. Estrin, General Counsel and Advocacy Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, released the following statement: The omnibus spending bill recently signed...
Otters on the Severn
- By: Severn Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
It is hard to believe that otters are happily swimming in the Severn River, only a few miles upstream of Maryland’s State Capital. Several years ago,...
Keeping an eye on stormwater pollution
- By: Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Steve Holt. Originally published by Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper, republished with permission. Stormwater is one of the most significant threats to...
Improper Wastewater Treatment in Santa Teresa
- By: Nicoya Peninsula Waterkeeper
- News
By Carolina Chavarría Pozuelo, Nicoya Peninsula Waterkeeper Nicoya Peninsula Waterkeeper is based out of Santa Teresa, a small and highly touristic surf...
Celebrating 10 Years of Fighting for the Futaleufú River
- By: Futaleufú Riverkeeper
- News
By Lydia Blanchet, Futaleufú Riverkeeper Water Monitoring Program Coordinator A crown jewel of Patagonia, the Futaleufú River flows westward across the...
Support the Farm System Reform Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Farm System Reform Act was recently introduced by Senator Cory Booker (NJ) and Representative Ro Khanna (CA) into both the U.S. House of Representatives...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Mbacke Seck, Hann Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Mbacke Seck was a student in 1998 when he and some fellow students noticed a disturbing development at their local beach in Hann Bay in Senegal. The area...
Mexican Court Urged to Rule for Indigenous Mayan Youth in Constitutional Challenge to Massive Industrial Hog Operation on Yucatán Peninsula
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Mexico City, Mexico — Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief today supporting constitutional claims...
Waterkeeper Alliance Receives United Nations Environment Programme Accreditation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance has received accreditation from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the coordinating body for the United Nations’ regional...