Gulf
15 Pollution-Prevention Victories
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers defend their waterways against every source of pollution, whether it’s toxic arsenic from a mine, oil that’s mixed into stormwater, or...
10 Big Local Wins Against Dirty Energy
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Waterkeepers around the world fight for clean water. As Waterkeeper Alliance turns 20, we’re looking at some of their biggest wins. These fights are...
N.C. Coal Ash Victory: State-Level Peer Pressure
- By: Ellen Simon
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones was standing before a packed gym of angry people in January, asking North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality...
Texas Could Prevent Future ITC Fires With Vigorous Enforcement
- By: Bayou City Waterkeeper
- News
Written by Bayou City Waterkeeper Executive Director & Waterkeeper Jordan Macha and Legal Director Kristen Schlemmer. Reposted with permission from...
North Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Clean Up its Coal Ash Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Decision Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills After hundreds of North Carolina residents came out to meetings and called for...
On the Frontlines of the Plastics Fight on the Texas Gulf Coast
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Diane Wilson, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and fourth generation Mid-Texas gulf coast shrimper, is keeping busy fighting Formosa Plastic Corporation’s...
20 Years of Clean Water Wins
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Today, on World Water Day, I can’t help but reflect on the billions of people around the world without access to clean and safe water. But there’s...
North Carolina Waterkeepers Mobilize Communities Against Hog Waste
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
How can a state manage 9.5 billion gallons of hog waste each year? That’s the question North Carolina has been grappling with for more than 20 years....
Clean Water Act Rollbacks Further Expose Greater Houston to Flooding
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
As Houston grows, the city and its suburbs are devouring its wetlands. Building subdivisions on top of wetlands has made the nation’s fourth-largest...
The Green New Deal: What Does it Mean for Water?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal With 2018 being the fourth-hottest year on record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years on record having occurred since 2001,...
Waterkeepers Florida Committed to Protecting Sunshine State Waters
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Written with Jen Lomberk, John S. Quarterman, Lisa Rinaman, and Kelly Cox. Regional entity Waterkeepers Florida came together early February for an in-person...
Defend Missouri’s Maramec Spring Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Maramec Spring is the center of a popular Missouri park, with 1,860 acres of forests and fields, and a well-attended annual Kids’ Fishing Day, where...
Statement of Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Kansas Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels, Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz braved icy roads to testify in...
Statement of Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz to EPA on Redefining Waters of the U.S.
- By: Lake Worth Waterkeeper
- News
Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels (left), Kansas Riverkeeper Dawn Buehler, and Lake Worth Waterkeeper Reinaldo Diaz (right) braved icy roads...
With Groundbreaking Title VI Settlement Signed, North Carolina Environmental Justice Organizations Vow to Continue Their Fight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental justice groups announced today that they reached a settlement agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental...
Congress sold out rural citizens and their communities | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
On Friday, the President signed into law the fiscal year 2018 spending package, narrowly avoiding another government shutdown. The package does not include...
Environmental Groups Reach Settlement with State Regarding Response to Citizen Complaints
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Yesterday, Waterkeeper Alliance, Cape Fear River Watch and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), represented by Elizabeth Haddix and...
Trump’s Misrepresentation of WOTUS – And Why It Matters
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
On February 28, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to begin a series of actions, long sought by industry, that will allow uncontrolled discharges...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Launch “The True Cost of Industrial Meat Production” Environmental Justice Video Campaign
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Series captures environmental injustices perpetrated by the pork industry against North Carolina’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — Waterkeeper...