06 Letter from the Chairman: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 09 Who is Waterkeeper Alliance? 10 Waterkeeper Alliance News Release 12 Splashback 14 Ripples 22 Guest Column: Governor Jon Corzine 24 Talking Water: M.C. Mehta 26 The Clean Coal Con 28 Sludge Busters: St. Clair Channelkeeper Doug Martz 32 Feature: THE RISE OF SLIME 34 The Consequences of Overfeeding our Oceans 40 Waterkeepers Chesapeake 42 State Secrets: Maryland Chicken Farms 43 Central Valley Dairy Factories 44 Big Dams, Big Ag and Toxic Algae 45 Georgia’s Precious Blackwaters Turn Green 46 North Carolina Hog Vigil 48 Action On The Forge 49 The Messy Vocabulary of Watershed Protection 52 Lake Erie: Signs of Trouble 53 The Way Forward 58 9th Annual Waterkeeper Conference 60 Guest Column: Oliver A. Houck 62 Ganymede: Mercury Rising 64 On the Water with Photographer Bill Yates 66 All Hands On Deck: Clean Coal/Dirty Politics