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  • Pollution Standards Victory

    Legal Victory Requires EPA to Reconsider Outdated Industrial Water Pollution Standards For Immediate Release: June 18, 2025 Contact: Eva Dillard, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: (205) 458-0095, [email protected] Ari Phillips, Environmental Integrity Project, (202) 263-4456, [email protected] Hannah Connor, Center for Biological Diversity, (202) 681-1676, [email protected] SAN FRANCISCO— The 9th Circuit Court of […]

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  • Toxicity Victory

    Groups Successful in Updating Toxic Pollutant Values to Protect Health of Alabamians For Immediate Release: June 17, 2025 Contact: Eva Dillard, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: (205) 458-0095, [email protected] David Ludder: (850) 386-5671, [email protected] A Petition for Rulemaking was granted on Friday by the Alabama Environmental Management Commission (AEMC) after seven conservation […]

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  • Stop Tuscaloosa’s Sewage Spills

    Take Action: Stop Tuscaloosa’s Chronic Sewage Spills Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Friends of Hurricane Creek have a petition on Action Network telling Mayor Walt Maddox and the City Council of Tuscaloosa to Stop Tuscaloosa’s chronic sewage spills. The city of Tuscaloosa’s sewage system chronically overflows harmful sewage and industrial […]

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  • 2025 Munson Intern

    UA student wins Munson Foundation scholarship with Black Warrior Riverkeeper For Immediate Release: June 3, 2025 Contact: Charles Scribner, executive director, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: [email protected], 205-458-0095 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation has awarded Ella Kate Baker, a current student of The University of Alabama’s College of Communication […]

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  • Backroom Deals in our Backyards

    Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: Book Talk and Signing Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – 4:00 PM at The Alabama Booksmith The Alabama Booksmith and Black Warrior Riverkeeper are pleased to host author Miranda Spivack (https://www.mirandaspivack.com/), a former Washington Post reporter and Fulbright scholar, talking about her Studs and Ida Terkel Prize-winning […]

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  • Alabama Toxicity Petition

     Groups Demand Alabama Update Toxic Pollutant Values to Protect Human Health For Immediate Release: April 17, 2025 Contact: David Ludder: (850) 386-5671, [email protected] Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: (205) 458-0095, [email protected] Conservation groups throughout Alabama have filed a Petition for Rulemaking with Alabama’s Environmental Management Commission, the board that oversees […]

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  • Earthbound’s Earthfest 2025

    Earthbound’s Earthfest Supports Black Warrior Riverkeeper on April 19 For Immediate Release: April 5, 2025 Contact: Charles Scribner, Executive Director, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: (205) 458-0095, [email protected] BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Saturday, April 19, 2025, 2 PM to 8 PM, Earthbound headlines Earthbound’s Earthfest, the band’s annual outdoor concert at Avondale Brewing Company (21 41st St […]

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  • Thank you 2024 Volunteers

    Thank You 2024 Volunteers Dear Black Warrior Riverkeeper supporters, I am pleased to report that 805 volunteers donated 3,431 service hours through Black Warrior Riverkeeper in 2024! According to The Independent Sector, the most recent estimated national dollar value of volunteer time is $33.49 per hour. Multiplied by $33.49, our volunteers’ 3,431 […]

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  • Sipsey Wilderness 50th Anniversary

    50 Years of the Sipsey Wilderness Dear Black Warrior Riverkeeper supporters, Our partners at the Alabama Environmental Council (AEC) and Wild Alabama just sent us their exciting press release announcing the 50th Anniversary of the Sipsey Wilderness. On January 5, 1975, the Sipsey Wilderness was designated a federally protected wilderness […]

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  • 2024 Report and Call to Action

    Dear Black Warrior Riverkeeper supporters, As our team, partnerships, and support base continue to strengthen, we are increasingly confident that our Waterkeeper system is exactly what this vital but vulnerable watershed needs. Thanks to the support of members – donors and volunteers – like you, we accomplished all this and […]

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