News & Updates
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Press Conference: Hydropower – A False Climate Solution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Over 280 organizations from 69 countries call for climate funding to exclude so-called “sustainable” hydropower schemes. WHEN: 21 September 2021 |...
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Motion to Protect Amazon Rivers Approved at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille
- By: ajcarapella
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR). Republished with permission. The Members’ Assembly of the International Union for Conservation of...
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Chubb is the 16th insurer to cut ties with the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
“Chubb does not provide insurance coverage for any tar sands projects,” a Chubb spokesperson told the Financial Times today. The announcement was...
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Help Ensure All Americans Have Safe Drinking Water
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Reliably clean and safe drinking water is something most people expect as a given. That trust was earned through protections like those afforded under...
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In Response to Lawsuit, EPA Pledges to Strengthen Standards for Slaughterhouse Water Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
In a victory for clean water, EPA announced yesterday that it will update water pollution control standards for the slaughterhouse industry following a...
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Who is Waterkeeper: Guy Alsentzer, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
There’s an old expression in Montana: “Whiskey’s for drinking, and water’s for fighting.” Leading that fight as Upper Missouri Waterkeeper is...
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Open Letter Calls on Insurers to Cut Ties with Trans Mountain, as Key Pipeline Insurance Policy Expires
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Fifteen insurers have ruled out Trans Mountain already; coalition pledges to continue pressuring the remaining companies Today, Indigenous, environmental,...
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Coalition Reacts to UN Climate Report, Renews call for Nationwide Ban on Oil Drilling in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
IPCC 6th Report: Scientists articulate dire warnings and extreme costs of societal inaction The Our Islands Our Future coalition today renewed its call...
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We Must Urgently Restore Clean Water Protections
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
In 2020, the Trump administration issued an unprecedented new regulation that dramatically eliminated federal Clean Water Act protections for rivers,...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dire IPCC Report on Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier today brings a dire warning: climate change is accelerating and aggressive...
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Wealth Before Health: State Regulators Ignoring Big Sky’s Big Pollution Problem
- By: Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Wealthy Developers Get Categorical Exclusions; Ignoring Cumulative Impacts Polluting Gallatin River Watershed Originally posted by Upper Missouri Waterkeeper....
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Who is Waterkeeper: Ivy Frignoca, Casco Baykeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
When the Casco Baykeeper position opened up six years ago, Ivy Frignoca jumped at the opportunity. Frignoca is a lawyer and environmental advocate, whose...
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Plastic Free July: Thinking beyond litter, landfills, and recycling rates
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Plastic Free July is a global movement for cleaner streets, oceans, and communities. Waterkeeper Alliance salutes our partners and all those fighting back...
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500+ Organizations Call on US and Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture and Storage as a False Solution to Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
It’s Time to End the Carbon Capture of Climate Policy In an open letter sent today to leaders in the United States and Canada, more than 500 US, Canadian,...
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Support the Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act is proposed legislation from Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative A. Donald McEachin (VA-04)....
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Lawsuit Filed to Overturn Denial of Endangered Species Protection to Eastern Hellbenders
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
North America’s Largest Salamanders Are Threatened by River Pollution From New York to Missouri A lawsuit filed today by five conservation groups challenges...
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Clean Water Act Victory in the Washington State Court of Appeals
- By: Puget Soundkeeper
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Originally published by Puget Soundkeeper, reposted with permission. Soundkeeper and Partners Successful in their Challenge of a Statewide Agricultural...
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Washington Appellate Court Rejects State’s Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Permits, Finds State Failed to Protect Water Quality and Account for Climate Change
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Yesterday, as record-setting heat threatened the sustainability of Washington’s water resources, a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals...
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Who is Waterkeeper: John Forrester, Werribee Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
John Forrester has been the Werribee Riverkeeper in Australia since 2014. His love of the river, however, goes back much further than that. Forrester has...
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Hundreds of Groups Demand Biden Name Climate-Focused FERC Commissioner
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
With a Biden nominee on the way, climate activists want the White House to prioritize a shift off fossil fuels Over 320 community, climate, and environmental...
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Restore Section 401 to the Clean Water Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
A controversial 2020 regulation promulgated by the Trump EPA dramatically diminished state and tribal authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act....
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Groups to Biden: Halt New Oil Drilling, Cancel Trump Leases on Public Lands
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Climate, Indigenous and conservation groups today called on the Biden administration to halt new drilling permits and to cancel unlawful Trump-era oil...
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Biden Administration Comes Up Short in Action to Restore National Clean Water Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Important Waterways Across the Country Left Unprotected Indefinitely During Administrative Process Citing to the significant environmental degradation...
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Nature Always Wins: The Colorado River Basin’s Dam Problem
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The fight for clean and free-flowing waterways often runs up against dams. These structures once seemed like great solutions for how to provide power and...
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This World Oceans Day, Pledge to #DefendTheDeep
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
When the crew of Apollo 17 took their famous photograph of Earth in 1972 on the last crewed lunar mission, what was suddenly and dramatically clear...
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Great.com Interviews Waterkeeper Alliance about Fighting to Keep Our Water Clean, Safe and Secure
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Great.com Karim Bukhadurov from Great.com interviewed Waterkeeper Alliance as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ podcast. This...
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Who is Waterkeeper: Sonal Bhushan, East Kali River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The East Kali River in India runs for 300 miles, through eight districts of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state located in the northern end of...
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International, American, and Bahamian Environmental Groups Slam Disney for Stifling Public Debate over Controversial Cruise Ship Port in The Bahamas
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Friends of the Earth US, and four Bahamian environmental groups — reEarth, BREEF, Save the Bays, and Waterkeepers Bahamas — expressed...
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Public Health Experts, Conservationists Ask Mexico’s Highest Court to Uphold Suspension of 49,000-Hog Industrial Animal Operation in Yucatán Peninsula
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Efforts Support Constitutional Claims Raised by Mayan Children MEXICO CITY, Mexico— Conservation groups, scientists, doctors, and public-health experts...
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Support the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced on March 26 by Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) and Representative Alan Lowenthal (CA) into both the...