South Atlantic

Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Denial of Petition to Better Regulate Pollution From Animal Factories
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week denied a petition from Waterkeeper Alliance and dozens of environmental and community...

Catawba College and Waterkeeper Alliance Partner on Advocacy Boot Camp
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
A Profound Learning Experience in Environmental Advocacy Recently, six Catawba College undergraduate students traveled to New Bern, NC to participate in...

What’s Up With WOTUS?
- By: Jen Lomberk
- Clean Water Defense | News
What’s Up With WOTUS? In recent weeks, you may have seen news stories about “WOTUS” or “Waters of the United States.” The argument over what...

Waterkeepers Meet in Alabama for Regional Summit
- By: Patience Burke
- News
Last month, Waterkeeper groups from more than a dozen different states descended upon the Magic City – Birmingham, Alabama – to attend the Gulf and...

Waterkeeper Alliance Holds “Fly-Over” in North Carolina to Get Better Look at CAFO Crisis
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
Recently, Waterkeeper Alliance held a “Fly-Over” in North Carolina. With the help of South Wings, and accompanied by a half dozen other local...

Op-Ed: We Must Shut Down Factory Farms to Protect Clean Water and Environmental Justice
- By: Gloria Reuben
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
by Gloria Reuben For years, Americans have been served an image of an idyllic family farmer who is responsible for the food that makes its way to our homes....

Who Is Waterkeeper: Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Emily Sutton didn’t know what being a Waterkeeper entailed until she started working as one. Suffice to say, it was an immediate fit. After graduating...

Who Is Waterkeeper: Damon Mullis, Ogeechee Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Damon Mullis is the Ogeechee Riverkeeper in Georgia. He grew up spending a lot of time hunting, fishing, and recreating outdoors. At Georgia Southern University,...

Who Is Waterkeeper: Jen Lomberk, Matanzas Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Jen Lomberk grew up in Florida, a state known for the many out-of-state people who relocate there. She describes herself as a child of the state’s waterways,...

Beating Back the Tide of Nurdle Pollution with Charleston Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
A pernicious and increasingly common form of plastic pollution comes by way of the innocuously named nurdles, the lentil-sized “pre-production pellets”...

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: Jefferson Currie II, Lumber Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Jeff Currie had only been on the job as Lumber Riverkeeper for a few weeks in 2018 when Hurricane Florence came barreling through North Carolina. The devastating...

Restoring Eroded Farmland through Creative Partnerships
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
- News
By Emily Sutton, the Haw Riverkeeper with Haw River Assembly. Reposted with permission from Haw River Assembly. Controlling Erosion with Mushrooms Saxapahaw,...

EPA Petitioned to Protect Communities, Environment From Radioactive Phosphogypsum Stacks, Wastewater
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Conservation and public-health groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency today to improve federal oversight of the radioactive waste produced...

Local Clean Water Wins from the November 2020 Election
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
Clean water was *literally* on the ballot on November 3 for many counties and states across the United States. Local and state ballot initiatives asked...

It’s time for NC to make a simple, scientific, change to improve its water quality standards
- By: Catawba Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina is behind Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi in water quality standards By Brandon Jones, Catawba Riverkeeper Gov. Roy...

This Holiday Season, Buy Locally from Sustainable Farmers
- By: Broad Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By David Caldwell, Broad Riverkeeper with MountainTrue. Originally published by MountainTrue. Photos by Colfax Creek Farm. As we approach the holiday season,...

It’s long past time NC takes action on pollution from poultry
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper The unregulated poultry industry in North Carolina is burgeoning, with the number of chickens and turkeys increasing 17...

Pipelines for Hog Waste Gas are Dirty Energy
- By: Jill Howell
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Jill Howell, Pamlico Tar Riverkeeper, Sound Rivers Our nation is moving away from dangerous pipelines — and it’s a move for the better. In July,...

Protecting, Preserving, and Restoring the Floodplain
- By: Matthew Starr
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper. Originally published by Sound Rivers. We still have more than a month left in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season,...

Show your appreciation for environmentally conscious farmers
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
A lot of folks in North Carolina produce meat. The state ranks second nationally in pork production and is among the nation’s leaders in poultry production....

Georgia Waterkeepers Ask Citizens to “Vote Yes on Amendment 1”
- By: Julia Widmann
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Julia Widmann, Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer, Gulf and South Atlantic Regions Photos by Joe Cook Waterkeepers in Georgia are asking Georgia citizens...

Weaving Together a Community Through Sustainable Farming
- By: Haw Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper The way Isaiah Allen tells the story, the man at The Eddy’s bar had a deep farmer’s tan, sweat dried around his collar,...

Two Inches Of Rain Was All It Took
- By: Kemp Burdette
- Pure Farms Pure Waters
Two inches of rain was all it took to send three million gallons of hog feces and urine coursing from Sampson County’s B&L Farms to Starlins Swamp,...

Yadkin Riverkeeper on the Clean-Water Reasons to Support Sustainable Farms
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Edgar Miller, Executive Director of Yadkin Riverkeeper The early days of the pandemic brought disturbing, hard-to reconcile, news: On the one hand,...

Hog and Poultry Waste Threat in N.C. Has Gotten Worse Since Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms Pure Waters
North Carolina’s industrial meat operations pose a greater environmental threat today than they did when Hurricane Florence hit the state in 2018. And...

A Chilling Message: Keep Away from Water’s Edge
- By: Yadkin Riverkeeper
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Brian Fannon, Yadkin Riverkeeper The message from local officials about a pond near Lake Norman last summer was chilling: “Keep away from the water’s...

EWG and Waterkeeper Alliance: Poultry Factory Farms Disproportionately Threaten Black, Native American, and Latino People in North Carolina
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms Pure Waters
113 Million Chickens and Turkeys in Three Eastern Counties Alone The predominantly Black, Native American, and Latino residents of three eastern North...

UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth: Factory Farms Disproportionately Threaten Black, Latino, and Native American North Carolinians
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Sarah Graddy, EWG Communications Director; Ellen Simon, Waterkeeper Alliance Advocacy Writer; and Soren Rundquist, EWG Director of Spatial Analysis1...

What’s in your water: check before you swim
- By: ajcarapella
- News | Pure Farms Pure Waters
By Will Hendrick, Waterkeeper Alliance senior attorney and manager, and Gray Jernigan, Green Riverkeeper. Photos by MountainTrue. What’s in the water...