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  • Groups Ask MPO to Drop Northern Beltline From Plan

    Groups Urge MPO to Drop Northern Beltline From Transportation Plan For Immediate Release August 9, 2011 Contact: Sarah Stokes, SELC Associate Attorney, 205-745-3060 Representing: Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, 205-458-0095 Birmingham, AL — Two local groups have asked the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to remove the Northern Beltline from the […]

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  • Groups ask MPO to remove Northern Beltline from funding plan

    Northern Beltline to Consume Half of Region’s Transportation Federal Funding October 9, 2012 Contact: Sarah Stokes, Southern Environmental Law Center, Staff Attorney, 205-745-3060, [email protected] Representing: Black Warrior Riverkeeper – Nelson Brooke, 205-458-0095, [email protected] Birmingham, AL — Two local groups have asked the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to remove the Northern […]

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  • Locust Fork Band plays benefit for Black Warrior Riverkeeper

    The Locust Fork Band will play a charity concert for Black Warrior Riverkeeper at Bottletree Café from 3-6pm on Saturday, April 4th. Named after the Black Warrior River’s Locust Fork, this legendary Alabama rock and country band hopes to raise funds and awareness for watershed protection. Their website is http://www.locustforkband.com/ […]

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  • Waterkeeper Alliance launches coal website

    Black Warrior Riverkeeper helps Waterkeeper Alliance Launch Website Combating Myth of Clean Coal Today, Waterkeeper Alliance unveiled the whole truth about coal. TheDirtyLie.com website has been launched to combat the lies that are being spread about coal, including the myth of so-called “clean coal.” As an autonomous local chapter of […]

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  • Groups Challenge Flawed Coal Mine Permitting

    Groups Challenge Flawed Coal Mine Permitting along Black Warrior River For Release: November 25, 2013 Contact: Catherine Wannamaker, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, (650) 793-3372 Nelson Brooke, Riverkeeper, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, (205) 458-0095 Mike Senatore, Vice President, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3221 Jim Hecker, Environmental Enforcement Project Director, Public […]

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  • Waterkeeper Alliance Blueprint for Clean Water

    Waterkeeper Alliance’s U.S. Blueprint for Clean Water Waterkeeper Alliance’s U.S. Blueprint for Clean Water offers a new agenda for strengthening U.S. environmental protection to restore America’s ailing rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and coastal waters. Unique in both its scope and depth, the Blueprint is the work of more than a […]

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  • Groups Challenge Lenient Approach to Stream Filling

    Advocates Challenge Corps’ Lenient Approach to Stream Filling in Black Warrior River Basin   Press Release from the Southern Environmental Law Center and Black Warrior Riverkeeper For Immediate Release: October 27, 2015 Contact: Catherine Wannamaker, Southern Environmental Law Center, (650) 793-3372, [email protected] Nelson Brooke, Riverkeeper, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, (205) 458-0095, […]

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  • Groups Defend State Effort to Reduce Polluted Runoff

    Clean Water Groups Defend State Effort to Reduce Polluted Runoff For Immediate Release March 24, 2010 Contact: Gil Rogers, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center [email protected] (404) 521-9900 Beth Stewart, Executive Director, Cahaba River Society [email protected], (205) 322-5326 x411 Montgomery—The Alabama Rivers Alliance, Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Cahaba River […]

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  • Groups Push Drummond to Fix Abandoned Mine

    Abandoned Mine Site Continues to Pollute Locust Fork Conservation Groups Pushing for Proper Treatment   For Immediate Release: June 29, 2016 Contact: Barry Brock, Southern Environmental Law Center, 205-745-3060, [email protected] Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, 205-458-0095, [email protected] Richard Webster, Public Justice, 202-630-5708, [email protected] Birmingham, AL— Conservation groups filed a notice […]

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  • Black Warrior Riverkeeper settles lawsuit with Birmingham Airport

    Black Warrior Riverkeeper settles pollution case with Birmingham Airport Authority and Dunn Construction Black Warrior Riverkeeper settled their pollution case against the Birmingham Airport Authority and Dunn Construction Company on February 18, 2009. In United States District Court, the Honorable Judge Inge P. Johnson approved the settlement including injunctive relief […]

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