Potomac Riverkeeper protects & restores water quality in the Potomac River & its tributaries through community action & enforcement. Our Potomac & Shenandoah Riverekeepers are on-the-water defenders of the river and its tributaries.
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Potomac Riverkeeper Senate hearing today at 3:00pm on proposed Chesapeake Bay legislation.
Source: epw.senate.gov
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Potomac Riverkeeper Public comment now open on draft federal strategy to restore the Bay -- and all of our rivers and streams.
Source: edocket.access.gpo.gov
Potomac Riverkeeper Tonight, Brent will be attending the first of a series of public meetings on the new pollution cap (TMDL) for the Bay watershed.
Meeting set on new bay requirements - journal-news.net | News, sports, jobs, community information f
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Potomac Riverkeeper Ed (Potomac Riverkeeper) is meeting with an environmental engineer about construction issues in Maryland and Virginia.
Potomac Riverkeeper Thanks to everyone who came out last night to our Get the DIRT Out training co-hosted by FORCE & Little Falls Watershed Alliance!
Source: potomacriverkeeper.org
ake action against one of the biggest problems in our watershed: polluted runoff from construction sites. In our new “Get the DIRT Out” volunteer program, residents learn how to evaluate the polluted runoff ...
Potomac Riverkeeper SELC alerts the EPA to Omega Protein's dumping of fish waste into the Bay without specific authorization.
Source: www.southernenvironment.org
As the federal government redoubles its efforts to restore the ailing Chesapeake Bay, a Virginia fish processing plant's discharge of high-nutrient fish waste, comparable to the level of pollution from D.C.'s huge Blue Plains wastewater treatment plant, could be thwarting those efforts.
Potomac Riverkeeper Join Ed & Nadia at our Get the Dirt Out training in Washington, DC tonight, 7 - 9pm at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church.
Source: www.potomacriverkeeper.org
Potomac Riverkeeper Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxics into waterways every year. Virginia is second in the nation.
Source: www.environmentamerica.org
Potomac Riverkeeper We closed a major environmental loophole!
Source: www.potomacriverkeeper.org
(Boyce, VA) — A major regulatory loophole closed yesterday as the Virginia State Water Control Board approved changes in the way poultry waste is regulated. Currently only poultry waste used by poultry growers themselves is regulated. ...
Potomac Riverkeeper EPA has issued the first test orders for pesticides to be screened for their potential effects on the endocrine system, including atrazine.
Source: www.epa.gov
October 29, 2009 -- EPA has issued the first test orders for pesticides to be screened for their potential effects on the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and disrupt ...
Potomac Riverkeeper Jeff will be joining the Shenandoah EcoAdventure tonight. You can join them online.
Source: www.thedownstreamproject.org
The Downstream Project to save the Shenandoah River and all watersheds. We all live downstream.
Potomac Riverkeeper Public meetings throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed on developing pollution caps (TMDLs).
Source: www.epa.gov
— The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Local Government Advisory Committee webconference about the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load and the important role of local governments in the process of achieving pollution reductions. ...
Potomac Riverkeeper Untreated wastewater flowed into Piscataway Creek on Wednesday.
Source: www.wjla.com
ABC 7 News - Wastewater Flows Into Piscataway Creek - Officials say heavy rains and a valve that accidentally opened contributed to a sewer overflow in Piscataway Creek.
Potomac Riverkeeper Jeff is at the State Water Quality Board meeting today for the final determination on the poultry litter (waste) disposal regulations.
Potomac Riverkeeper NYT: The Clean Water Act has fallen well short of its goals, crippled by uneven and sometimes nonexistent enforcement by state and federal agencies and by shortcomings in the law itself.
Source: www.nytimes.com
The 1972 Clean Water Act has fallen well short of its goals; the time has come to strengthen enforcement and the law.
