
Kelly Hunter Foster
Senior Attorney
Campaign Manager
Clean Water Defense
Since 12/6/10
Kelly Hunter Foster is an environmental attorney and advocate with more than 20 years of regulatory and litigation experience with all of the major federal and many state environmental laws, including administrative, civil and criminal cases in both state and federal courts. She joined Waterkeeper Alliance as Senior Attorney in December 2010 and currently manages Waterkeeper Alliance’s Clean Water Defense and National Pure Farms, Pure Waters campaigns.
Prior to joining Waterkeeper Alliance, Kelly spent fourteen years working to protect Oklahoma’s air, land and water as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Unit of the Attorney General’s Office. In 2001, she began serving as the Environmental Protection Unit Chief and was responsible for providing representation to seven environmental agencies and two Cabinet Secretaries, as well as managing administrative, civil and criminal enforcement of environmental laws on behalf of the state.
Kelly Foster's Articles

Urge EPA to Protect Waterways From Coal-Fired Power Plant Pollution
- By: Kelly Foster
- News
In response to decades of advocacy and litigation by Waterkeeper Alliance and our partners, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now proposing...

“Navigable Water Protection Rule” Guarantees Widespread Pollution of our Nation’s Waters
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
Reversing more than 40 years of progress and settled law, on January 23, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps announced a new regulation...

Interactive Map: How Trump Proposal Endangers Rio Grande Basin
- By: Kelly Foster
- Clean Water Defense | News
A vast sub-basin of the Rio Grande could lose Clean Water Act protections under Trump proposal The headwaters of the Rio Grande, the nation’s third...