Hydropower is NOT Clean Energy: Dams and Reservoirs are Major Drivers of Climate Change
by Kate Hudson
Nov 21 2017
On November 8, 2017, the House of Representatives approved a bill, H.R. 3043, that defines hydropower as a renewable energy source and fast-tracks the licensing of large, taxpayer-funded hydro-projects, claiming that the concentration of licensing power in the hands of one federal agency—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—will boost a clean source of energy. Reservoirs ...
COP 23: U.S. Remains Only Nation to Reject Paris Agreement
by Guest Contributor
Nov 15 2017
By James D. Flynn, Esq. Jamie received his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and is pursuing an LL.M. in environmental and energy law at New York University School of Law. He currently serves as a legal intern at Waterkeeper Alliance. For the past two weeks, the nearly 200 nations of the world have been ...
Tribes, Landowners and Conservation Groups Intervene in Jordan Cove Pipeline Fight
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Oct 27 2017
Last month, Pembina, the Canadian Company behind the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and LNG export terminal filed their Certificate Application with the federal government, marking their third attempt over a 12 year period to build a pipeline through southern Oregon to ship fracked gas overseas. The project has faced stiff opposition from impacted communities because ...
Don’t Let EPA Dismantle the Clean Power Plan | Dive Into Democracy
by Guest Contributor
Oct 23 2017
By James D. Flynn, Esq. Jamie received his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and is pursuing an LL.M. in environmental and energy law at New York University School of Law. He currently serves as a legal intern at Waterkeeper Alliance. Photo courtesy of NASA. On March 28, 2017, President Trump signed the deceptively-titled Executive ...
We Can’t Afford to Keep Silent on Climate | Dive Into Democracy
by Larissa Liebmann
Sep 11 2017
As hurricanes pummel the southeast United States and the Caribbean, the western United States is on track to have the worst fire season in a decade. The process of healing and rebuilding communities affected by these destructive disasters will take years and tens of billions of dollars. As this process begins, it begs the question ...
Straining Through the Smoke, Looking for a Clean Energy Future
by Lesley Adams
Sep 6 2017
The smoke outside was so thick one could not see the mountains that rise sharply on the other side of the valley. Inside, I sat amongst 400 community members who anxiously awaited updates from the incident command team that recently set up a nearby base camp with almost 600 personnel to fight a complex of ...
2017: A Year of Devastating Floods
by Marc Yaggi
Sep 5 2017
2017 will be remembered as a year of intense flooding. Many reading this will think of the horrific devastation Hurricane Harvey wreaked on the city of Houston, Texas, and surrounding areas. Harvey is taking lives, forever altering livelihoods, and destroying billions of dollars of property. A number of key factors contributed to this destruction: misguided ...
Bayou City Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Respond to Harvey Devastation
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Aug 31 2017
Bayou City Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance are responding to Hurricane Harvey, working to assess the damage the record-breaking storm has brought to southeast Texas. Deploying the Waterkeeper Alliance’s Rapid Response Protocol, Bayou City Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance staff are working to support local communities and are developing a long-term cleanup and water monitoring plan for ...
Pulling out of the Paris Agreement is a threat to human rights
by Guest Contributor
Jun 21 2017
By Maia Berlow, Advocacy Intern at Waterkeeper Alliance As I think about the different categories of rights I deeply care about — minority, women’s and children’s rights, freedom of expression, and the right to housing — it becomes increasingly clear that all of these rights are threatened by climate change. Climate change already disrupts people’s ...
Time to fight for local climate action! | Dive Into Democracy
by Larissa Liebmann
Jun 5 2017
On June 1, President Trump announced that he will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. This decision threatens to dismantle the modest progress that has been made towards global climate action and threatens our climate, our rights, and our future. Although international and federal action on climate change may be stalled, lawmakers ...
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