Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
It's official - You saved the Hoback!
Scott Bosse, Director, Northern Rockies
January 2, 2013 | Fracking, Most Endangered Rivers, Wild and Scenic Rivers
Three months ago, we announced a tentative deal to spare western Wyoming’s Hoback River from industrial scale gas drilling – if we could raise $8.75 million to buy out a Texas energy company’s oil and gas leases by the end of the year.
Read more »Mississippi River Mayors Advise Communities Affected By Sandy
Eileen Fretz, Flood Policy Director
December 21, 2012 | Floods & Floodplains
Over the weekend, Mayors from the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative penned some advice to local officials along the east coast who are struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. It was great to see these Mississippi River mayors reaching out to their peers on the coast and voicing some of the shared concerns of living in flood-prone areas.
Read more »Feeling The Heat On Uranium Mining In Virginia
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
December 21, 2012 | Most Endangered Rivers
Uranium mining is a hot topic right now in Virginia. You might remember that American Rivers listed the Roanoke River as one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2011 due to a proposed uranium mine. Since that time, the Virginia legislature has been talking about whether or not to lift a 30-year ban on uranium mining in Virginia.
Read more »To Float Or Not To Float The Waste...That Is The Question
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
December 20, 2012 | Fracking, Water Pollution
If you have been following the saga of shale gas development in the eastern U.S., then you likely have heard that Pennsylvania in particular has an issue with wastewater disposal of flowback and produced water from natural gas wells. Currently, traditional wastewater treatment plants cannot treat the suite of chemicals present in shale wastewater. The innovators have been working furiously on solutions to that problem.
Read more »Urban Waters: New Study Highlights the Impacts of Urban Development on Streams
Amy Trice, Lapham Conservation Fellow
December 19, 2012 | Urban Rivers, Stormwater & Sewage
As a child, I had the opportunity to grow up in an idyllic setting in a small southern town on the Flint River. Back then, fishing and swimming with my Grandfather in the Flint, or its nearby tributaries, consumed the summers, along with homemade desserts and ice cream. I had no idea that people lived in places where streams weren’t fishable and swimmable, let alone buried and put into pipes. Oh, to be young and naïve.
Read more »Oil and Gas Development Banned In Skeena River’s Sacred Headwaters
David Moryc, Senior Director, River Protection
December 19, 2012 | Wild and Scenic Rivers
In a huge victory for our partners to the north, oil and gas development in the headwaters of the pristine Skeena River in northwestern British Columbia has been permanently banned by the regional government.
Read more »A Clean Water Solution: The Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard
Gary Belan, Director, Clean Water Program
December 18, 2012 | Water Pollution, Stormwater & Sewage, Urban Rivers
Who would have thought that our water pollution problems could be solved by the 1%? Well, not the 1% of the well off, but by 1% increments. That is the concept behind the new Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard guide we are releasing today.
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