Offshore Drilling Plan Threatens Atlantic Coast, Ignores Overwhelming Opposition
Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:06
On August 16, 2017, on behalf of Waterkeepers Chesapeake, Assateague Coastkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance and more than 70 organizations, representing thousands of businesses and citizens, Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) submitted comments asking the Trump Administration to reject offshore drilling in the Atlantic. SELC released this statement: The comments…
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Offshore Drilling (Atlantic)
Assateague Coastkeeper: Bill in Maryland Would Focus on Poultry Impacts
Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:33
Poultry house pollution focus of Md. Senate bill A new Maryland bill strives to shed more light on the impact of poultry farms on the Eastern Shore on the public's health. Senate Bill 773, if passed, would require the Maryland Department of the Environment to monitor pollution from industrial-scale…
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Waterkeepers in the News
The Top 10 Ways Scott Pruitt Can Hurt the Nation’s Largest Estuary - the Chesapeake Bay
Monday, 20 March 2017 11:10
Blog published by Waterkeeper Alliance, March 17, 2017, written by Mitchelle Stephenson, Waterkeepers Chesapeake We asked our 19 Waterkeepers, who know their watersheds better than anyone, their greatest fears about Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator. With Pruitt’s history of climate change denial and his…
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EPA Funding, Rollbacks & Federal Legislation