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Who Is Waterkeeper: Bruce Reznik, Los Angeles Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Waterkeeper Movement
Los Angeles Waterkeeper Bruce Reznik grew up in a quiet, residential area of Los Angeles County. As a kid, he can remember seeing signs pointing out the...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Jerry White Jr, Spokane Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Spokane Riverkeeper, Jerry White Jr, says his love of the water goes way back. He describes his mother and grandfather. specifically, as ‘river people’...
Waterkeeper Alliance Stands With Groups in the Western U.S Seeking to Avoid the Collapse of the Colorado River Supply System
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Colorado Riverkeeper, John Weisheit, drafted detailed scoping comments submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation on August 17, 2023 as a part of that agency’s...
Waterkeepers Meet in Idaho for Regional Summit
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Waterkeeper groups from the Pacific region (Western U.S.) enthusiastically gathered in Boise, Idaho April 3-6 for the 2023 Region Summit. In total, 22...
Waterkeeper Alliance Celebrates EPA’s Decision to Veto Pebble Mine and Protect Bristol Bay’s Irreplaceable Watershed
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance celebrates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its Final Determination for the Pebble Deposit, which...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Melinda Booth, Yuba River Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Yuba River runs for about a hundred miles from its origins in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe in Northern California downhill to the Sacramento...
Conservation Groups Win Major Appeal in Challenge to Expansion of Colorado’s Gross Dam
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
On Friday, September 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit handed conservation groups — Save the Colorado, The Environmental Group,...
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...
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,...
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...
After Years of Community Organizing, Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal and Fracked Gas Pipeline Project is Dead
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Pembina Announces It Has “Decided Not to Move Forward With the Project” and Asks the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to Cancel Its Permit Pembina,...
Challengers to Jordan Cove LNG get their day in Federal Court
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Oral argument for lawsuit challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector...
Waterkeeper Alliance Works to Align Local Waterkeepers with Regional EPA Administrators
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
As the U.S. celebrates the 49th anniversary of the landmark Clean Water Act (CWA) legislation, Waterkeeper Alliance—a global movement that connects and...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Appeal Filed to Sustain Colorado River Flows and Stop Gross Dam Expansion
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Coalition Stays the Course in Fight to Halt Construction of Tallest Dam in Colorado History DENVER – A coalition of conservation groups filed a notice...
Settlement Agreement Reached for Windy Gap Firming Project Litigation
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Today, opposing sides in the litigation over the Windy Gap Firming Project (“Project”) reached and signed a settlement agreement that ends the litigation...
Broad Coalition of Environmental Nonprofits Urge Elected Officials to Oppose the Goldendale Pumped Storage Development
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
A coalition of fifteen environmental organizations called on Washington and Oregon elected officials to oppose the Goldendale Energy Storage Hydroelectric...
Groups Challenge Trump Administration Sale of 58,000 Acres of Public Lands for Oil, Gas Drilling
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Feds ignored effect on groundwater, cumulative climate impacts A coalition of groups today challenged five Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease...
500 Groups Urge Biden to Order Fossil Fuel Leasing Ban
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary Hundreds of conservation, Native American, religious and business groups...
Legal Protest Blasts Trump Administration Plan for 47,000 Acres of Fracking Leases in Colorado
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Leases Threaten Sage Grouse, Climate Pollution Weeks Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban Conservation groups filed a protest today challenging the...
Urgent Action: Put an End to Pebble Mine!
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- Clean Water Defense | News
We have one last chance to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, its world-renowned salmon runs, and its Native communities. Take action today to...
140 Groups Call on Trans Mountain’s Insurers to Drop the Pipeline
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Today, 140 organizations representing 24 million people sent a letter to the current insurers of Trans Mountain, urging them to stop insuring the tar sands...
In it for the Long Haul: Saluting Waterkeeper Heroes
- By: Marc Yaggi
- Clean Water Defense | News
In a world where so much seems to be measured in dollars and cents, (or Euros or Kenyan Shillings or Peruvian Sols), we quantify our work differently. ...
The River That Made Seattle
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
“Cummings brings the river and its history to life… A must-read for anyone who wants to know the story flowing through Seattle.” –...
Leviathan Dreams
- By: Boulder Waterkeeper
- News
By Ted Ross, Boulder Waterkeeper As we all emerge from the anxiety of the coronavirus quarantine it is time to consider how our world might be changing...