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Waterkeeper Alliance, Calusa Waterkeeper, and partners are urging Florida officials to set water-quality standards for the harmful toxins in algal blooms. The standards will help notify the public when blooms are dangerous and contribute to long-term planning to curtail the factors that contribute to the outbreaks.
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Following the release of the 2019 Insurance, Coal, and Climate Change Scorecard, which scores major global insurance companies on their climate policies, demonstrators visited Liberty Mutual offices in Boston and Seattle to demand that the top fossil fuel insurer take responsibility for its role driving the climate crisis.
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EPA is trying to weaken protections against toxic coal ash, which contains heavy metals and chemicals known to harm human health, including lead, mercury, and arsenic. File a comment today calling on EPA to abandon its rulemaking that would allow coal companies to save money by dumping more toxic pollutants in our waterways.
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News from the Waterkeeper Movement
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Waterkeeper groups across
Latin America
"Latin American Waterkeepers Tackle Climate Change," by Rafaela Iturralde for Waterkeeper Alliance.
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Altamaha Riverkeeper
Georgia, United States
"After a Giant Ship Goes Belly Up, Many Fear a Shoreline Is Next," by Rick Rojas for The New York Times.
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Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate
Wyoming, United States
"Prior Appropriation and Water in the West," by Rica Fulton with Upper Green River Network, a Colorado Riverkeeper Affiliate for Waterkeeper Alliance.
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Little River Waterkeeper
Alabama, United States
"Keep Little River Wild: Waterkeeper Alliance Supports a Wild and Scenic Designation for Alabama’s Little River," by Julia Widmann for Waterkeeper Alliance.
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Yarra Riverkeeper
Australia
"How one family is saving the world, one plastic water bottle at a time," by Carolyn Webb for The Age.
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Waterkeepers Bangladesh
Bangladesh
"Coal-fired power plants only to invite disasters: Activists," by United News of Bangladesh.
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