Search Results for: national river clean up
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In the Wake of Harvey, Ten Facts about Floods
As the people of Houston struggle to recover from Hurricane Harvey, people all across America should consider contributing to the recovery effort and preparing for a flood in their own communities. American Rivers offers a few facts about floods to help people and communities prepare.
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Menominee Tribe Fights to Stop Controversial Mine
The Back 40 project threatens many of the sacred and beloved sites along the Michigan and Wisconsin’s Menominee River. The Menominee Tribe is fighting to prevent this project from damaging all of their sacred land.
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A Fishing Guide’s Perspective on Mining in the Menominee
Back 40, a proposed plan to implement a sulfide mine on Michigan’s Menominee River, raises many concerns for the health of such a beautiful and important river.
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Record Heat, Lake Mead, and new science in the Colorado Basin
As temperatures continue to rise during the summer months, we are monitoring the heat index and decrease in water-flow to the Colorado Basin.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Fails to Deliver
June 7, 2017 Contact: Amy Kober, 503-708-1145 Washington – President Trump spoke on the bank of the Ohio River today about the nation’s infrastructure, but failed to provide a coherent plan for addressing the pressing need to repair and improve the country’s outdated water systems. “Today, President Trump promised more tax breaks and rollbacks of […]
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President Trump Should Take These 4 Steps for Water Infrastructure
The anticipated arrival of President Donald Trump to Cincinnati, Ohio will primarily focus on his vision for the nation’s infrastructure. Trump should consider these four important points when determining our access to clean drinking water, for our current communities and the future.
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A Vision of Restoration from a Record California Winter
A myriad of local, state, and federal partners are working to restore some of the largest meadow systems in California and recover one of the West’s most iconic native trout.
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“Review” or an unprecedented rollback of conservation?
The pomp and circumstance surrounding this “review” is simply the prelude to an undoing of more than one hundred years of conserving our nation’s special places by every President since Teddy Roosevelt.
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The Wild President – Celebrating an Unsung Environmental Hero
From running the first descent of GA’s Chattooga’s most famous rapid, Bull Sluice, to protecting over 5,300 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers across the country, President Jimmy Carter is an unsung environmental hero.
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Make America Flood Again…and Again…and Again…
What is the new normal? Even if climate change weren’t a reality, rescinding actions which are aimed at making Americans safer is simply bad economic policy.
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Weathering Change
Bringing Federal Policy into the 21st Century Many federal policies still encourage the same backward-looking water management approaches that didn’t work in the past and are even less suited to the future. Federal funding and policies reward wasteful water use and support destructive, inflexible infrastructure projects, while important programs that would help save water or […]
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Where do we Stand after 50 Days of the Trump Administration?
The first 50 days of the Trump administration are moving towards making our rivers dirtier, depriving Americans of clean, safe drinking water, and ignoring public health and the well being of future generations.