As our team reflects upon the year we offer a sampling of bright spots –signs of promise- that our work is making a difference thanks to your support.
Ed Merrifield, Potomac Riverkeeper: “We have tripled the number of Law firms...
Updates
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 2:12pm
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 1:20pm
Why has the long effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay failed? Initiatives to fix the Bay date back to at least the mid-1960s, before the passage of the Clean Water Act. The Bay has now seen four “landmark agreements” passed to great fanfare from politicians and environmentalists alike – the 1983 and 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreements, Chesapeake 2000, and recently the Chesapeake Bay Executive Order, all leading to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL.
The Chesapeake Bay TMDL offers a new chance at restoring the Chesapeake Bay and we support its establishment. However it is our...
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 3:39pm
If you need to get your holiday shopping done but your mind is REALLY on your next paddle, bike ride or run along the Potomac, then we are here to help!
This Saturday, December 3rd, our friends at...
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 11:00am
Early last week, Shenandoah Riverkeeper Jeff Kelble and Dargan Coggeshall spoke at the membership meeting of the Isaak Walton League...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 2:03pm
At the 2011 Chesapeake Watershed Forum held in Shepherdstown, WV, Shenandoah Riverkeeper Jeff Kelble had the honor of presenting the local, on-the-water perspective about Phase II WIP development for the Plenary Session focusing on the Bay TMDL.
In his presentation, Jeff told the Hound Dog Story, a true analogy of finding common ground to communicate the importance of protecting our rivers and streams.
Thank you Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay for...
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 3:12pm
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.
Both Perdue Farms Inc and Alan Hudson were named in the lawsuit because one controls the poultry operation and the other is the owner/operator of the facility. Coastkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance contend both should share...
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 10:00am
Upper Potomac River Manager Brent Walls returned to the D&L Coal Tipple Site for an inspection visit earlier this month. Previously the site suffered from severe stormwater pollution problems – water tainted with coal and sediment would flow off of the facility’s entrance and...
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 1:00am
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.
Governor O'Malley's letter to the Dean of the University of Maryland Law School...
Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 12:30pm
Improving Access Will Allow Others to More Safely Make the 100,000 Paddle Strokes Down the Tidal Potomac from...
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:32pm
On Novmeber 9th, 2011, Potomac Riverkeeper participated in the Give to the Max Day. This massive one-day online fundraiser...
