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Waterkeeper Groups Achieve Settlement with EPA on Drinking Water Safety
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeepers Chesapeake, and California Coastkeeper Alliance today filed a settlement agreement in federal court with the U.S. Environmental...
Southern Oregon advocates challenge federal approval of Jordan Cove LNG
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Today, southern Oregon organizations filed a lawsuit challenging Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal...
Creatively Adapting: Waterkeepers Encourage Solo Cleanups
- By: Malaika Elias
- Clean Water Defense | News
As we settle into this new COVID-19 reality, Waterkeepers across the movement are finding creative ways to engage their communities and create opportunities...
A Silver Lining in the Time of Coronavirus
- By: Boulder Waterkeeper
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
By Ted Ross, Boulder Waterkeeper and Pacific Region Waterkeeper Council Representative While we are still in the midst of a critical public-health phase...
Now’s Our Chance: A Future Free of Fossil Fuels
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
UPDATE 5/13/2020: This post has been updated to reflect that the “Resources for Workforce Investments, not Drilling (REWIND) Act,” a comprehensive...
Oregonians Unite to Demand Rehearing on Jordan Cove LNG Federal Approval
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
The Klamath Tribes, affected landowners, and public interest organizations request rehearing on fracked gas export terminal and pipeline in southern Oregon....
Stay inside, support Cook Inletkeeper and the Bears of Amakdedori
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Everyone remembers the first “activist” sticker they put on their car, right? Well, I do. It was a “NO Pebble Mine” sticker that I put on the bumper...
Waterkeepers Offer Hope, Diversion, Grocery Pickups
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
When pandemic headlines read, “The Sky is Falling,” it seems like an awkward time to remind your supporters of the work you do, and the ways they can...
For Time Indoors | More Waterkeeper Content!
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Waterkeeper Documentaries for Time Indoors
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
Our Work Continues
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Waterkeeper Alliance is making plans to continue our important mission-driven work, strengthening and supporting...
Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Partners, Sue in Response to Massive Clean Water Act Rollback
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
In case you missed it: Waterkeeper Alliance and eleven U.S. Waterkeeper Organizations, including Lake Worth Waterkeeper, joined last month with several...
The Chehalis at a Crossroads: Plans for a Flood Control Dam Threaten the Headwaters
- By: Twin Harbors Waterkeeper
- News
Story and photos by Lee First with Twin Harbors Waterkeeper The era of dam building is over. In the past 30 years, 1275 dams have been torn down, according...
Lawsuit Launched Over Trump’s Massive Rollback of Clean Water Act Protections
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration today for eliminating longstanding Clean Water Act protections for...
Making Connections to Humboldt Bay
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
A credo of Waterkeepers is “clean water for all,” but the reality is it’s hard to meet “all” sometimes. In any given community, barriers exist...
Native American Water Rights
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The third...
“The Law of the River”
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The second...
Prior Appropriation and Water in the West
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate, republished with permission from Holiday River Expeditions. The first...
Conservationists Intervene in Ludicrous Effort to Dam the Little Colorado River Half a Mile from the Grand Canyon
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Today a coalition of conservation organizations sought intervention and opposed preliminary permits for a series of new dams and reservoirs on the Little...
Cook Inletkeeper’s Fight Against Climate Change for Wild Alaskan Salmon
- By: Bart Mihailovich
- News
Cook Inletkeeper Bob Shavelson has been fighting climate change in Alaska for twenty years. From melting sea ice and receding glaciers to warming salmon...
Waterkeepers Fighting Climate Change: Eight Projects Making a Difference
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
U.S. Waterkeepers are fighting against climate change by working to protect the areas they love best from rising seas, ocean acidification, and fossil...
Worried About Microplastics? Stormwater Is A Solution
- By: California Coastkeeper Alliance
- News
By Sean Bothwell, California Coastkeeper Alliance executive director. Reposted with permission from California Coastkeeper Alliance. New research shows...
Waterkeeper Groups Across United States Oppose Rollback of States’ Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Proposed revisions to Clean Water Act would hamstring states’ ability to protect their waters Waterkeeper Alliance and 148 Waterkeeper groups today submitted...
Protecting the Bay from Trump’s EPA
- By: San Francisco Baykeeper
- News
By Sejal Choksi-Chugh, originally published in the October 2019 edition of Bay Crossings, reposted with permission from San Francisco Baykeeper The Trump...
Just Weeks Left to Stop the Biggest Climate Disaster on the Columbia River
- By: Columbia Riverkeeper
- News
By Kate Murphy, community organizer at Columbia Riverkeeper Meet Dylan Haviv. He’s a 10-year-old climate activist who wants Washington state to stop...
Building Alliances at Riverside Homeless Encampments
- By: Russian Riverkeeper
- News
By Don McEnhill, Riverkeeper and Executive Director, Russian Riverkeeper My love for the Russian River has taken me places I never thought I’d go, like...
Cleanups: Opportunities for Policy Solutions
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers have made cleanups into an opportunity for face-to-face advocacy on issues such as plastic bag bans and alternative bag fees. The message:...
Cleanup Month: Uncommon Finds
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Clean up a river and you may well find messages in bottles, a mannequin head or “almost enough parts to make a whole Honda Civic.” Sometimes, the finds...
River Cleanups: “Gateway Drug to Stewardship”
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Arranging a cleanup can be the human equivalent of planting saplings, or seeding an oyster bed, helping Waterkeepers grow a base of dedicated activists....
Coho, lamprey, sculpin, crayfish: tiny homegoings on Bush Creek
- By: Twin Harbors Waterkeeper
- News
By Twin Harbors Waterkeeper Lee First Wading softly through the mud of Bush Creek, I netted lampreys, crayfish, snails, beetles, worms, and clams. Every...