Wheeling, WV – December 7, 2012 – A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollutants in animal manure into local waterways used for recreation, drinking and to support nearby communities.

THE ‘ESSENTIAL EIGHT’ CHANGES

12:00 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2012

Bill Satterfield, in his June 11 letter to the editor ("Urban waste, not chicken manure, is the bay's biggest threat") was right when he said "everyone has a role in protecting the Chesapeake Bay." What he forgot is that "everyone" includes both the agricultural and urban sectors.

Proposed rules would lead to excessive farm-related pollution and hurt state’s efforts to clean up the Chesapeake and other waterways

Assateague Coastal Trust and Assateague Coastkeeper joined Waterkeeper Alliance to bring suit against Perdue Farms Inc and one of their contracted growers in March 2010 for polluted discharges of fecal coliform, e.coli, nitrogen and phosphorus coming off the poultry growing facility into waterways connecting to the Pocomoke River and eventually the Chesapeake Bay.

NOVEMBER 21, 2011, EASTON, MD     Today, the coalition of eighteen local not-for-profit Waterkeeper programs in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, known as WATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE, spoke out to decry the letter released on November 16 by Governor Martin O'Malley regarding a Clean Water Act citizen lawsuit currently ongoing in Maryland against industrial agriculture giant Perdue Farms, Inc. and one of its contracted poultry growers, Alan Hudson.

Many of us are sticking around the DC area this weekend, some cleaning up from Irene, others of us frantically trying to figure out exactly where to shop for a heavy-duty-poly-portfolioed-non-brad-double-horizontal-pocketed folder, and some just enjoying the decreased traffic flow for a few more days unti

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