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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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  • Southern Exposure in JCLC 2024

    New Southern Exposure DVDs donated to all Jefferson County Library locations For Immediate Release: November 7, 2024 Contact: Tobin Cataldo, executive director, Jefferson County Library Cooperative: [email protected], (205) 226-3615 Kelly Marshall, deputy director, Alabama Rivers Alliance: [email protected], (205) 540-7385 Charles Scribner, executive director, Black Warrior Riverkeeper: [email protected], (205) 458-0095 HOMEWOOD, […]

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  • New Northern Beltline Analysis

    New report questions impact, economics of Northern Beltline highway project Proposed new section of the $5+ billion project will destroy over 10 miles of streams and tributaries north of Birmingham, offer little economic benefit For immediate release: 10/9/2024 Media contacts: Terah Boyd, Southern Environmental Law Center, [email protected], 678-234-7990 Nelson Brooke, […]

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  • Southern Exposure in BPL 2024

    Southern Exposure Films Donated to all 18 Birmingham Public Library Locations For immediate release: Friday, September 20, 2024 Contact: Roy L. Williams, Director of Public Relations, Birmingham Public Library, Phone: (205) 226-3746 cell (205) 568-0067, E-mail: [email protected] BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Alabama Rivers Alliance and Black Warrior Riverkeeper have donated to the Birmingham […]

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  • Settlement Approved at Mine No 7

    Judge Approves Settlement Requiring Cleanup of Warrior Met Coal’s Mine No. 7 For Immediate Release: September 19, 2024 Contact: Nelson Brooke, Riverkeeper: (205) 458-0095, [email protected] Eva Dillard, Staff Attorney (205) 458-0095, [email protected]  Birmingham, AL — A federal judge in Birmingham has granted a request by Black Warrior Riverkeeper to approve […]

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  • Bluestone Coke Contempt Statement

    Bluestone Coke and West Virginia Governor’s son fail to fulfill federal contempt requirements in Birmingham pollution case Press statement from the Southern Environmental Law Center: September 12, 2024 Contact: Terah Boyd, Southern Environmental Law Center, 678-234-7990, [email protected] Representatives for Bluestone Coke, including Jay Justice, the son of West Virginia Governor […]

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