Black Hills Clean Water Alliance is a grassroots environmental advocacy group founded in 2009 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Its mission is to protect water and related natural resources in the Black Hills by opposing uranium, gold, lithium, graphite, and other large-scale or radioactive mining projects and by promoting community-based conservation and environmental justice for present and future generations.
Opposition to new large-scale and radioactive mining, protection of surface and groundwater and watershed health, advocacy for federal and local mineral withdrawals and restrictions, support for stronger mining permitting and regulatory oversight, public comment and community engagement processes, and defenses of Indigenous sacred sites and treaty lands intersecting environmental protection.
Primarily funded by individual donations and grassroots fundraising (online donations, community events), supplemented by small local grants and in-kind support from allied organizations and community partners.
NDN Collective, Anthropocene Alliance, Black Hills Environmental Coalition, Clean Water Legacy, Breadroot Natural Foods Co-op; Lilias Jarding (executive director and public spokesperson).
Non-profit grassroots environmental advocacy organization
