South Atlantic
Take Action: Protect Okefenokee Swamp from a Titanium Mine
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Today, you can use your voice to help protect a beautiful blackwater swamp in southern Georgia and the surrounding community from the risk of dangerous...
Thank Congress for standing up to Big Oil!
- By: Chris Wilke
- Clean And Safe Energy | News
In late April, sixteen Members of Congress joined together to take a stand against Big Oil and proposed offshore drilling in the waters of The Bahamas,...
Court Allows Slaughterhouse Pollution Lawsuit to Move Forward
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms Pure Waters
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit can proceed challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure...
Now’s Our Chance: A Future Free of Fossil Fuels
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- Clean 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...
Your grocery store may be crowded, but your local farm has plenty of room for you
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
At a time when grocery shopping may seem daunting, supporting your local farmers by buying directly from their farms, or shopping at farmers markets, can...
The people who will save the planet: Waterkeeper Warriors featured on Visionaries
- By: Tom Quinn
- News
On the first Earth Day fifty years ago today, April 22, 1970, Pete Seeger sailed the-one-year-old sloop Clearwater to Washington, D.C., with messages of...
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...
Active Fights for Free-Flowing Rivers in the Gulf and South Atlantic
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
On the ground, Waterkeepers have been fighting for free-flowing rivers, dam removals, and restoration solutions that best protect their communities for...
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...
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...
Gas from hog waste isn’t clean energy
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
The “fix” $15 billion Smithfield Foods is proposing for its hog waste pollution problem — turning hog waste into biogas — isn’t a fix at all. ...
Tell NC’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board: Waste from Industrial Pork and Poultry Hurts People
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
The nearly 10 billion gallons of waste hogs in North Carolina produce each year taints our clean water, stinks up our fresh air, and hurts our people —...
Would N.C.’s Hog Operations Treat Neighbors Better if there were McMansions Next Door?
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, looked at his crowded courtroom, and spoke from the heart. “If...
North Carolina is No. 1 in a Dangerous Pollution Category
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina is the top state in a category that poses a hazard to our soil, our air, and our water. Thanks to the expansion of intensive hog, chicken,...
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...
Yadkin Riverkeeper Addresses Misinformation on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Replacement Rule
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Yadkin Riverkeeper. Reposted with permission from Yadkin Riverkeeper. With last week’s release of the new rule changes to the Clean Water Act, there...
Smithfield’s biogas plans won’t solve swine waste pollution problems
- By: Ellen Simon
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina is jumping in — quickly — and with a blessing from the state utilities agency, to a mass experiment of capturing gas from swine waste...
Waterkeepers Florida Caps First Year With A Slate Of Achievements
- By: Waterkeepers Florida
- News
Waterkeepers Florida Caps First Year With A Slate Of Achievements, New Website, And Important Objectives For The 2020 Florida Legislative Session Waterkeepers...
How Big Poultry in North Carolina Became a Pollution Threat
- By: Ellen Simon
- Pure Farms Pure Waters
Chickens used to peck around the farm, but most now live in crowded barns where they never see the light of day—let alone a grub scratched from the dirt. ...
Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Tells the “Seismic Truth”
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Crystal Coast Waterkeeper Larry Baldwin believes you deserve to know the truth about seismic testing and offshore drilling. Larry knows how dangerous seismic...
North Carolina Settlement Results in Largest Coal Ash Cleanup in America
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Community Groups, N.C. DEQ and Duke Energy Reach Settlement to Clean Up Coal Ash at Six North Carolina Sites The Southern Environmental Law Center today...
Public Interest Groups Sue EPA to Curb Slaughterhouse Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms Pure Waters
EPA’s Decision Not to Update Pollution Standards Allows Slaughterhouses to Continue Discharging Unhealthy Amounts of Pollution into the Nation’s Waterways...
Waterkeepers Fighting Climate Change: Eight Projects Making a Difference
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
U.S. Waterkeepers are fighting climate change by working to protect the areas they love best from rising seas, ocean acidification, and fossil fuel industry...
Gulf and South Atlantic Waterkeepers Respond to Federal Clean Water Act Rollbacks
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Across the Gulf and South Atlantic regions of the US, Waterkeepers responded to the EPA rollbacks of Clean Water Act protections with creative, informative,...
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...
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....
N.C.’s Poultry Waste Threat Growing by 18.16 Million birds Since Florence
- By: Ellen Simon
- Press Releases | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina’s unregulated poultry industry added enough barns in the year since Hurricane Florence to house at least 18.165 million more birds at...
Legal Petition Seeks Ban on Plastic Pollution From Petrochemical Plants
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Decades-old EPA Limits Require Update As Plastic Production Booms More than 270 community and conservation organizations filed a legal petition today that...
Hog and Phony Show
- By: Lumber Riverkeeper
- News
By Jefferson Currie II, Lumber Riverkeeper, Winyah Rivers Alliance North Carolina’s Farm Bureau recently led tours of factory swine operations for both...