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Tag Archives: drinking water
  • Take Action: Ask Governor Cooper to Fight for Clean Water

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 19, 2020

    Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released devastating rollbacks to water protections in the Clean Water Act. As this opinion piece in the New York Times notes,…


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  • Sound Rivers joins lawsuit over loss of clean water protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 18, 2020

    Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration today for eliminating longstanding Clean Water Act protections for the nation’s waters, including approximately half of all…


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  • Proposed changes to Clean Water Act will gut protections

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on December 13, 2018

    This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  released a proposal to dramatically cut back protections to wetlands and waterways that we all…


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  • Devil We Know Film Screening

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 12, 2018

    Join us for a FREE screening of The Devil We Know on Tuesday December 11th at 7:00pm at The…


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  • Emerging Contaminants in Your Water

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 1, 2018

    Your Riverkeepers have been monitoring the emerging contaminants situation on your rivers for some time now; you may recognize “GenX” from the news – it appeared in…


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  • Coal Ash contaminating the Neuse? Duke Energy and DEQ say no.

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on October 4, 2018

    The NC Department of Environmental…


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  • High levels of arsenic found in Neuse River following H.F. Lee Coal Ash Spill

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 28, 2018

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2018 Contact: Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, upperneuserk@soundrivers.org , ( 919) 961-2240 Maia Raposo, Waterkeeper Alliance, mraposo@waterkeeper.org , (203) 824-2229 Donna Lisenby, Waterkeeper Alliance, dlisenby@waterkeeper.org , (828) 297-3777 Analysis Finds…


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  • Action Alert: Urge Your U.S. Representative To Vote No On The Banks Amendment To Repeal The Clean Water Rule

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 17, 2018

    This is a radical amendment that would eliminate the safeguards under the Clean Water Rule for the waters that feed the drinking…


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  • Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Responds to Proposed Gen X Legislation

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on February 8, 2018

    The NC Senate has released proposed legislation they say will…


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  • Sound Rivers takes legal action against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 14, 2017

    Groups Take Legal Action Against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Press Release, 11/13/17 Sound Rivers joined a coalition of affected landowners and conservation groups this week and filed a request for rehearing,…


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  • Why I Give, with Karen Polk

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 12, 2017

    By Corinne Everett Belch, Director of Development Karen Polk has been a sustaining supporter of Sound Rivers  for years. She first became aware…


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  • Atlantic Coast Pipeline to Cross Sensitive Streams

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on April 10, 2017

    By Heather Deck, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is an interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina. If constructed, the ACP will be owned,…


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  • President signs Dirty Water Order

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 1, 2017

    Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that is intended to weaken the Clean Water Act, a major federal law that has protected our Nation’s water since 1972. The


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  • Why Small Streams are Important

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on February 16, 2017

    Protection of headwater streams is vital to…


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  • Take Action on Clean Water Rollbacks

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 9, 2016

    Take Action today for the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico Rivers and help us protect the River Living we all enjoy! Senate leaders have put the health of our waterways at risk. They have…


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