Featured Stories: April 9, 2014
As the warm-weather recreation season continues, Baykeeper presents tips to protect both your health and the health of San Francisco Bay.
When You’re Along or On the Bay
Use mineral sunscreens, but avoid nanoparticles. Most chemical sunscreens contain dangerous compounds like oxybenzone and retinol...
BK In The News: April 3, 2014
Ironically, precisely at the moment that San Francisco ceased to be a working port and a food source for large numbers of residents, the people of the Bay Area learned to see the bay as something more than a highway for shipping, a waste of prime real estate, or a dumping ground.
Monthly Column: April 1, 2014
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, Opening Day on the Bay on April 27, and the spring and summer recreation season, Baykeeper presents tips to protect both your health and the health of San Francisco Bay.
When You’re Along or On the Bay
Use mineral sunscreens, but avoid nanoparticles. Most chemical...
BK In The News: March 20, 2014
SAN JOSE -- In a move that could cost San Jose thousands of dollars in fines and lead to punitive cleanup orders, state wildlife officials have filed an environmental complaint against the city, claiming it's violating pollution laws for failing to adequately clean up homeless encampments along...
E News: March 13, 2014
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Blog Post: March 12, 2014
Joining with a coalition of environmental groups, Baykeeper recently helped scuttle a proposal by developers for a new facility to export coal from the Port of Oakland. Coal breaks apart easily, forming dust that contains mercury, arsenic, uranium, and other toxic substances. Transporting millions...
Featured Stories: March 11, 2014
Marine Express, Inc., an Alameda company that repairs and services ships, agreed last week to install controls to keep toxic substances from running off its shoreline facility into San Francisco Bay. Baykeeper filed a Clean Water Act lawsuit against Marine Express after documenting pollution from...
Blog Post: March 11, 2014
California is experiencing one of the driest years on record, and the state is gripped by drought. A lack of rain has major impacts on how we consume freshwater. What does it mean for water quality in the Bay?
Drought doesn’t necessarily increase or reduce pollution in the Bay, but it can change...
Featured Stories: March 11, 2014
In honor of our 25th Anniversary, Baykeeper presents the story of our founding in 1989.
In the late 1980s, Dr. Michael Herz, a research scientist who had been studying and advocating on behalf of San Francisco Bay for the previous decade, was becoming increasingly alarmed. Environmental laws that...
Monthly Column: March 5, 2014
Drought’s impact on San Francisco Bay is varied, but fish get hit the hardest.
Salmon and steelhead swim into the Bay from the ocean, then swim up rivers or creeks to spawn, depositing the eggs that become the next fish generation. Historically, despite periodic droughts, during spawning season the...
