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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
- Climate 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...
N.C. Takes Step to Remove “Swamp Waters” Classification from Lower Cape Fear River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s Environmental Management Commission today granted a petition from environmental groups to remove the “swamp waters” classification...
The Everglades’ Forgotten Northern Estuary
- By: Lake Worth Waterkeeper
- News
By Reinaldo Diaz, Lake Worth Waterkeeper In South Florida, we have fundamentally reshaped nature. Now our challenge is righting the wrongs of the past....
Tell N.C. to Take Action on Environmental Justice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Everyone should be able to cultivate a garden, open her windows, or join a church picnic on a sunny day. For the neighbors of North Carolina’s industrial...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Decision to Exempt Factory Farms From Reporting Hazardous Air Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Community and conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for overstepping its authority in exempting factory farms from pollution-reporting...
Community, Environmental Groups File Constitutional Challenge to Laws Limiting Individual Property Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental and community groups today filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against industrial hog operations,...
Haw Riverkeeper Emily Sutton: Let’s Celebrate Each Victory
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper at Haw River Assembly “Some activists are afraid that if we acknowledge victory, people will give up the struggle....
How the Clean Water War is Won: Waterkeeper Alliance and Culture Trip Introduce “Waterkeeper Warriors”
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Waterkeeper Warriors campaign features photography of waterways around the world and the Waterkeepers who defend them, with stories voiced by Alec...
13 Restoration Successes
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern As Waterkeeper Alliance celebrates 20 years of fighting for drinkable, fishable, swimmable water, we’re...
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...
Dam Removal in South Carolina: Watch Congaree Creek Flow Free
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Kayakers, canoers, fish and mollusks can now navigate Congaree Creek with ease thanks to the combined efforts of Congaree Riverkeeper, American Rivers,...
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...
Hog Operations Can Follow N.C. Laws and Still Be Liable for Nuisance
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Following North Carolina’s minimal laws governing the disposal of hog waste generated from the state’s factory meat operations does not insulate a...
Groups Move to Defend N.C. Order that Duke Energy Must Clean Up Coal Ash Pollution at Six Sites
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | Press Releases
Duke’s Refusal Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills Community groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center moved...
Protecting the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous groups fight bad environmental impact assessments
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
In northern Peru, a proposed massive project to dredge Peru’s four most critical Amazonian rivers, the Marañón, Ucayali, Huallaga, and Amazon, is threatening...
Worsening High Tide Flooding Washes Pollution into Water Bodies
- By: Miami Waterkeeper
- News
Reposted with permission from Miami Waterkeeper As sea levels rise, high-tide flooding has worsened in many coastal cities on the east coast like Miami....
North Carolina Riverkeepers Respond to Swine Waste Management General Permit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality released the state’s Swine Waste Management General Permit today, which governs disposal of the...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...
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...