California Coastkeeper Alliance

Linda Sheehan

California Coastkeeper Alliance PO Box 3156  Fremont, California 94539 United States of America 510.770.9764 lsheehan@cacoastkeeper.org http://www.cacoastkeeper.org

Region Pacific Regional Coordination California Coastkeeper Alliance

Founded in 1999, California Coastkeeper Alliance (CCKA) is a non-profit organization that coordinates, supports and enhances the work of local California Waterkeepers to ensure Californians enjoy clean water and a healthy coast. CCKA began as coalition of Southern California Waterkeepers, and it has since expanded along the entire coast, up to the Oregon border. CCKA and its member Waterkeepers represent the only statewide-local partnership focused on the health of the state's waters and coastal ecosystems. Coordinating on-the-ground work at the community level with policy work at the statewide level, CCKA protects and expands upon the advances made by place-based Waterkeepers by advocating before state decision-makers on water-related issues important to California’s communities.

Recent Accomplishments

--Led a broad coalition of environmental and fishing groups to ensure State Water Board adoption of clear, swift requirements to phase out the use of environmentally destructive, "once-through" coastal power plant cooling systems, to be replaced with more sustainable operations.