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 ...
Pollution Cannot be Political
by Guest Contributor
Jul 11 2017
By Maia Berlow, Advocacy Intern at Waterkeeper Alliance On June 14th, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and four others were charged with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of the Flint Water Crisis. Lyon is accused of failing to alert the majority-black population in the Flint area to a Legionnaire’s ...
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 ...
Scott Pruitt’s “Federalism” Plan for the Environment is Dangerous
by Guest Contributor
Feb 15 2017
By Jason Aamodt Scott Pruitt’s federalism plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a dangerous game of pollution without representation. Under Mr. Pruitt’s version of “federalism,” environmental protection would be limited by political boundary lines. One obvious problem with Mr. Pruitt’s crusade is that wind, water and pollution do not respect boundary lines. Wind ...
Iraqi Waterkeepers Impacted By “Muslim Ban”
by Marc Yaggi
Jan 31 2017
It has been just a little over a week and the Trump Administration has acted with speed to open the door to fast track Dakota Access Pipeline and welcome the return of Keystone XL, among many other things. The President’s most damaging action so far is, of course, the Muslim ban – an Executive Order ...
Correcting Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Record – David Page, Oklahoma Environmental Attorney
by Guest Contributor
Jan 31 2017
By David P. Page I have practiced environmental law in Oklahoma for over 30 years. During this time Mr. Pruitt has, with regard to environmental issues, done more than any other Oklahoma Attorney General to protect the polluter, and has done the least of any other Oklahoma Attorney General to protect the “common man” or ...
ACT NOW: EPA Is In Danger
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Jan 25 2017
Yesterday, Senate Democrats on the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hosted a panel discussion to further examine U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator nominee Scott Pruitt’s environmental record and highlight his lack of qualifications needed to lead the agency. Waterkeeper Alliance’s Senior Attorney Kelly Foster spoke as an expert witness; as ...
NCEJN and Allies Respond to Latest Attack by Hog Industry
by Guest Contributor
Jan 6 2017
This post originally appeared on North Carolina Environmental Justice Network’s website. Bullies don’t like it when you fight back. For decades, the multi-national corporations that control the hog industry in Eastern North Carolina have bullied people who live near hog facilities. Elsie Herring has been standing up to the industry since the mid-1990s, and she’s ...
Trump’s Cabinet Will Throw Us Into Environmental Catastrophe
by Marc Yaggi
Dec 14 2016
ACT NOW: Write your Senator today and demand they do not approve Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, and Rex Tillerson to Trump’s Cabinet. The facts are clear. President-Elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees represent a targeted and well-thought out assault on America’s environmental protections. The President-Elect is stacking his leadership with not only the fossil fuel industry’s ...
The Legal Reasons DAPL Is Not Dead
by Daniel E. Estrin
Dec 8 2016
Daniel E. Estrin is General Counsel and Legal Director for Waterkeeper Alliance. Like many concerned citizens, I initially felt great relief on December 4th when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not grant Energy Transfer Partners an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to cross the Missouri River at Lake ...
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