We need your help to protect healthy forests and drinking water in Virginia and West Virginia by keeping a proposed ban on natural gas fracking on the George Washington National Forest.

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Dear Friends,

I want to let you know that I will be retiring at the end of this year. For the past ten years, this full-time job has been all-the-time work and I am now ready to slow my pace and enjoy this magnificent river we’ve been protecting.

I have had the privilege of working with incredible people, including our members, who understand the importance of healthy rivers and streams and are dedicated to making a real difference. For this I am truly grateful.

Leaving an organization where I once was a staff of one is not easy, but thanks to a great board of...

Requires pollution reduction for Anacostia and Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek

Washington, D.C. – Clean water advocates reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a clean water permit for Washington, D.C. that will require the city to develop a plan for reducing its discharges of polluted stormwater to clean up local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay.

This agreement resolves a legal challenge to the permit filed in November by public interest law firm Earthjustice (representing Anacostia Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, and Friends of...

Our friends at American Rivers have put the Potomac at the top of America’s Most Endangered Rivers list.  With this year being the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, it is a good time to review some of the many pollution problems our river faces.

Thanks to the Clean Water Act, you no longer see and smell most of the problems in the river, and no president is currently calling the Potomac a “national disgrace,”...