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Today, Columbia Riverkeeper joined seven organizations in filing a Safe Drinking Water Act petition to the U.S.

Every month in 2020 Columbia Riverkeeper will feature a harrowing David-versus-Goliath story of people coming together to fight for what they love. This month, we turn back the clock to 2015: the fossil fuel industry targeted the Columbia to build a massive oil refinery.  

The feds are withholding key information about cleanup at the most polluted place on Earth: Hanford. We support Ecology's decision to fine the Dept. of Energy for withholding crucial data.

“Today’s agreement is a win for clean water. We are holding industrial polluters accountable for releasing toxic water pollution.

Columbia Riverkeeper works with people in dozens of communities—from rural to urban—who share the same goals: Protect the health of their families and the places they love. 

EPA must protect Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead from dangerously warm river temperatures

“... We are ready to have this important ordinance back in place.” 
-Dan Serres, Conservation Director, Columbia Riverkeeper

We need people from around the Northwest to give feedback

This year people across the Northwest exercised constitutional rights to protect our climate.

As a Columbia Riverkeeper member, you defend clean water and our climate. Here are five ways you take on the Trump administration: