Monthly Column: June 3, 2013
Fracking—the process of injecting water, sand and toxic chemicals underground at high pressure to extract oil or gas—threatens San Francisco Bay. The technique, officially called hydraulic fracturing, is currently being used in hundreds of California gas and oil wells, with no regulation or...
BK In The News: May 24, 2013
Marin county beaches have some of cleanest water in the state during spring and summer, according to an annual Beach Report Card released Thursday. "In the summer the water quality is generally very good," said Deb Self, executive director of San Francisco BayKeeper, a bay pollution watchdog group...
BK In The News: May 24, 2013
Water quality at most Bay Area beaches remains clean and clear, according to a report released Thursday. .Almost all Bay Area beaches have zero or very low levels of bacteria from sewage, agricultural runoff or animal waste during the dry season. In the rainy season, sewage overflows and storm...
Blog Post: May 23, 2013
The Bay Area’s worst-polluting sewer agencies are spilling less sewage into San Francisco Bay, thanks to Baykeeper’s Sick of Sewage campaign.
Sewage pollution has been one of the most serious threats to the Bay’s health due to crumbling Bay Area sewer infrastructure. During the rainy season,...
Featured Stories: May 8, 2013
As we patrolled the southern San Francisco shoreline in the Baykeeper boat, we glided toward a huge facility where paint was being sandblasted off a massive ship towering above us. Paint chips blew onto our deck. Looking down, we saw a swirling film of pinkish-gray dust floating on the Bay’s...
Featured Stories: May 8, 2013
Baykeeper’s advocacy helped win new rules to reduce the risk of oil spills in San Francisco Bay by keeping large outbound ships from passing under the Bay Bridge in heavy fog.
The rules were adopted by the San Francisco Harbor Safety Committee February 14 and the Coast Guard announced that they...
Monthly Column: May 3, 2013
As we patrolled the southern San Francisco shoreline in the Baykeeper boat, we glided toward a huge facility where paint was being sandblasted off a massive ship towering above us. Paint chips blew onto our deck. Looking down, we saw a swirling film of pinkish-gray dust floating on the Bay’s...
Blog Post: April 29, 2013
Coal has long been the main fuel source powering most of China. But are the health and environmental risks spinning out of control? For the past several years, activist Sun Qingwei has worked to expose the environmental and human health risks of coal mining and consumption. He grew up in a coal...
E News: April 17, 2013
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Welcome to San Francisco Baykeeper's April E-News.
Monthly Update for April 2013
Fighting Fracking in California
Help Clean Up Toxic Debris at Point Molate
More Progress to Curb Pollution from Oakland Auto Shredder
Celebrate the Bay at Baykeeper's Spring Party on May 16
Earth Day Tips...
Blog Post: April 16, 2013
For the second time this year, thanks to Baykeeper’s advocacy, a polluting metal and vehicle recycler on the Oakland Estuary has been told it is still not doing enough to keep toxic dust out of San Francisco Bay—and that it must do better.
Schnitzer Steel has long been one of the Bay’s worst...
