Advocacy Success

On March 5th the Delaware Riverkeeper Network delivered to the Delaware River Basin Commission a petition asking them to take steps to protect fish populations… Read More »Dissolved Oxygen Petition Advanced

In September, 2014, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network submitted a formal petition to the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) requesting the agency take jurisdiction over the… Read More »DRBC Exercises Jurisdiction over PennEast Pipeline Project

In response to a petition submitted by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network regarding high lead levels in the sediments of the Philadelphia Gun Club, located next… Read More »DRN Petition Sparks EPA Action Regarding Potential Lead Contamination on Site Next to Delaware River and Residents

After 3 years of advocacy and a lawsuit filed by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s River Resources law clinic Dupont pulled out of the project it… Read More »DRN prevents US Army from Dumping 1200 tons of VX Nerve Agent Waste in the Delaware

After a year of refusing multiple requests by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network to mandate the Tennessee Gas Pipeline 300 Line Extension Project and the Columbia… Read More »DRN Secures DRBC Review of Two Devastating Pipelines

DRN advocacy protected nearly 1/3 of an acre of shallow water fish habitat which would have otherwise been filled during wharf reconstruction in Trenton.  Shallow… Read More »DRN Protected 1/3 of an Acre of Shallow Water Fish Habitat

The Township of Lower, Cape May County, NJ applied for a CAFRA Individual Permit and received said permit on January 17, 2014 for a project… Read More »Dunes In Lower Township, Cape May, NJ Saved from 1.5 mile Cut

A Proposed Hazardous Waste Incinerator for Bristol Township, less than a mile from the Delaware River, was forced to withdraw after months of opposition from the Delaware… Read More »Hazardous Waste Incinerator in River Town of Bristol Battled Back

October 10, 2006 the New Jersey Supreme Court denied the New Jersey’s Builders Association petition challenging the 300 foot buffer rule contained in New Jersey’s… Read More »NJ’s Stormwater Regulations

“Parks for Cash” Plan by the PA Legislature Defeated HB 2224 began working its way through the Pennsylvania Legislature in Spring 2012. The bill would… Read More »Parks for Cash Defeated