Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Trump Administration’s Coal Rollbacks
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Nov 4 2019
The rulemakings will release hundreds of millions of pounds of toxins into waterways The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new rulemakings that will allow coal-fired power plants to release hundreds of millions of additional pounds of pollutants in our waterways and continue to store coal ash in leaking, unlined pits well beyond the ...
Groups Announce Historic Coal Ash Cleanup Agreement with Brunner Island
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Jul 31 2019
Brunner Island Power Plant Owners Agree to $1 Million Penalty, Largest Ever Assessed in PA for Coal Ash Pollution Four environmental groups today announced an historic agreement to reduce toxic pollutants leaking from a power plant’s coal ash dumps into groundwater and the Susquehanna River, the largest Chesapeake Bay tributary. The consent decree requires Talen ...
10 Big Local Wins Against Dirty Energy
by Ellen Simon
May 22 2019
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 always personal — because they’re local. One of the key sources of pollution Waterkeepers defend their waterways against is dirty energy. The fights can be long, but the victories are often ...
Groups Move to Defend N.C. Order that Duke Energy Must Clean Up Coal Ash Pollution at Six Sites
by Waterkeeper Alliance
May 6 2019
Duke’s Refusal Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills Community groups represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center moved to intervene in appeals filed by Duke Energy in the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings in which Duke Energy tries to avoid cleaning up its coal ash pollution at six sites in North Carolina. ...
Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Strengthen Rule on Toxic Wastewater from Power Plants
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Apr 15 2019
EPA must update guidelines for reducing toxic wastewater pollution from steam-electric power plants Siding with environmentalists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday issued a decision directing the EPA to strengthen limits on toxic wastewater from power plants. The Court’s ruling requires EPA to reevaluate modern wastewater treatment technology to greatly ...
N.C. Coal Ash Victory: State-Level Peer Pressure
by Ellen Simon
Apr 4 2019
Catawba Riverkeeper Brandon Jones was standing before a packed gym of angry people in January, asking North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality a question almost everyone in the room wanted answered. How could it approve a plan for coal ash that Indiana had determined violated federal standards? Indiana’s Department of Environmental Management had recently ...
North Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Clean Up its Coal Ash Pollution
by Waterkeeper Alliance
Apr 1 2019
Decision Follows Years of Public Outcry, Pollution, Crimes & Spills After hundreds of North Carolina residents came out to meetings and called for Duke Energy’s coal ash to be moved to dry lined storage out of groundwater and away from waterways, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality today announced it would order Duke Energy ...
Gunpowder Riverkeeper, Blue Water Baltimore, Essex Middle River Civic Council Concerned about ‘Repowering’ of Maryland CP Crane facility
by Guest Contributor
Mar 27 2019
By Gunpowder Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance Organizer Malaika Elias Gunpowder Riverkeeper has been asking for transparency regarding the Maryland coal-fired power plant for years; its proposed transition to burning natural gas has spurred further involvement from Blue Water Baltimore and community group Essex Middle River Civic Council The C.P. Crane facility was a coal-fired ...
Tell EPA: Keep Mercury Limits Strong
by Larissa Liebmann
Mar 18 2019
Thanks to air emissions standards created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act in 2011, important progress in reducing mercury pollution in our waterways has been made. But Trump’s EPA is now taking steps to weaken these standards. Please take a stand against this polluter handout by filing a comment ...
Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille at Risk of Hazardous Material Train Derailment
by Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper
Feb 27 2019
By Sharon Bosley, Communications Associate, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper Lake Pend Oreille is the fifth deepest lake in the United States and one of the most majestic lakes in the Pacific Northwest. It is located in the Panhandle of Idaho near the town of Sandpoint. Sandpoint is the gateway for an abundance of outdoor recreation—it ...
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