Factory farms disproportionately threaten Black, Latino, and Native American North Carolinians

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August 2020
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UPDATE: Exposing Fields of Filth

In the past eight years, three predominantly Black, Native American, and Latino counties in North Carolina – already home to most of the state’s industrial hog operations – added 30 million chickens and turkeys, according to a new geospatial analysis by the Environmental Working Group and Waterkeeper Alliance.

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New Dam Project Threatens Grand Canyon

Waterkeeper Alliance and a coalition of conservation groups filed a motion to intervene to oppose a new hydropower project that would harm the Little Colorado River and endangered species.

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Challenging Disney to Address Climate Change, COVID-19, Environmental Injustice

The Stop Disney – Last Chance for Lighthouse Point Campaign released a recent letter calling upon Disney to update and expand its draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the proposed $250-400 million cruise ship port at Lighthouse Point in Eleuthera. The EIA must address three critical threats that raise major questions for the proposed project — climate change, COVID-19, and environmental injustice.

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Gan River Waterkeeper
Jiangxi, China
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Eagle-Eye View: Innovative applications for river protection

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Victoria, Australia
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The Yarra: A Journey Towards Ecological Restoration

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Lima, Perú
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New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built

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Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
Loreto, Perú
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Amazon Waterway: New risks for the river guardians under the pandemic

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August is National Make-a-Will Month!

This month, we want to inspire Waterkeeper supporters to take 20 minutes and make plans for the people they love the most using our free, online-will writing tool.

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