Clean Water. Healthy Rivers. Our Future.

What's New?

Our Virtual Curriculum is Here!

Columbia Riverkeeper developed science units that tackle important environmental issues and inspire action. Kids can work on the units at home on their own, or teachers can facilitate learning in a classroom or online.

Honoring Elizabeth Furse

“Activism is an amazing life,” -Elizabeth Furse. No one lived those words more fully. We mourn the passing of our friend, board member, and a Columbia Riverkeeper founder. On this Earth Day, 21 years ago, Elizabeth and colleagues launched Columbia Riverkeeper.

Victory Over Fracked Gas Power Plant

"This is a huge win for Oregonians and the climate" -Erin Saylor, Columbia Riverkeeper

Love Your Columbia Community

Watch and learn today from our incredible environmental lawyers, community organizers, scientists, and partners who work every day to protect the Columbia.

Take Action: Hanford

Call on the Biden administration to rescind a dangerous nuclear-waste rule that threatens people’s health and the Columbia River.

Act now

Podcast

Tune in to Conoce tu Columbia, our bilingual–English and Spanish–podcast, produced by Columbia Riverkeeper.

Listen // Escucha

Columbia Riverkeeper works to protect, restore, & care for the Columbia River.

How we do it:

Protect

We protect Columbia River communities and habitat from new threats, such as fossil fuel export terminals and intensive industrial development.

Restore

We restore our right to clean water and healthy fish by reducing toxic pollution.

Care

We care for the river by providing hands-on opportunities for diverse communities to engage with their river.

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HOW WE WORK

We use legal advocacy and community organizing to stop pollution, fight fossil fuel terminals, save salmon, build stewardship, and clean up Hanford.

Page photo and art credits, in top down, left to right order:
Paloma Ayala, Nina Montenegro, BPA, OPB, Paloma Ayala, and Nicole Mark.