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  • FERC Files its Environmental Assessment on Potomac Pipeline – Comments Due Feb. 26

    on January 30, 2018

    I wanted to be sure that everyone had a chance to look at the


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    Potomac Riverkeeper Network Calls for Changes to Maryland’s New Pollution Trading Regulations

    on January 12, 2018

    On December 8, 2017 the Maryland Department of Environment’s (MDE) published its proposed Water Quality Trading Program regulations which would establish rules for creating…


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  • Statement to State Water Control Board: Reject Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    on December 11, 2017

    On Monday, December 11, 2017, Shenandoah Riverkeeper Mark Frondorf and VP of Litigation & Programs Phillip Musegaas testified at the Virginia State Water…


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  • EPA Permit for DC Sewage Treatment Plant Fails to Protect the Potomac and Public Health

    on December 6, 2017

    On November 1, 2017, Potomac Riverkeeper Network sent comments to EPA calling for major changes to the Clean Water Act discharge permit…


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  • Firefighting Chemicals Threaten Martinsburg Water Supply and Opequon Creek

    on December 4, 2017

    Nearly six million people rely on public water supplies within the Potomac River Watershed to provide them with clean drinking water. Forty years after…


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  • Fighting to Stop Toxic Wastewater Pollution from Coal Power Plants

    on December 2, 2017

    In the latest example of federal environmental rollbacks affecting the Potomac River, the Maryland Department…


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  • Our Report Shows Coal Ash Can Be Recycled to Beneficial Uses

    on November 30, 2017

    Potomac Riverkeeper Network and Southern Environmental Law Center released a new report that finds recycling coal ash left at Possum Point and…


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  • 2017 Law & Water Gala

    on November 17, 2017

    On November 3rd, 2017, over 250 friends, guests and supporters gathered at the historic Old Ebbitt Grill to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the…


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  • World Rivers Day: Riverkeepers announce the Twinning of the Potomac and the Ottawa Rivers

    on September 23, 2017

    (Ottawa, ON. September 22, 2017) – Ottawa Riverkeeper (ORK) and Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRK) are pleased to announce the symbolic twinning…


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  • Enforcement Action Leads to Penalties for Sewage Plant in Lower Potomac

    on September 8, 2017

    Potomac Riverkeeper’s 2016 review of Clean Water Act discharge permits on the Potomac led us to the Winters Apartments Sewage Treatment Plant in St….


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PRK Network@PotomacRiver·
25 Jan

Major success on coal ash today! Dominion's toxic coal ash will be safely recycled or landfilled. Thanks to everyone who fought so hard to make this happen! #moveyourash #coalash

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PRK Network@PotomacRiver·
17 Jan

Please contact members of the VA Ag. & Natural Resources Cmte to tell them to support Senator S. Surovell’s bill, SB1533 and finally clean up the toxic coal ash leaching into the Potomac River! Read more and find contact information here. https://t.co/rqA3jIX3gU #moveyourash

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