Blog Post: June 19, 2012
Soon, state regulations requiring furniture and other consumer products in California to be doused with toxic flame retardants will be revised, with input from environmental and human health advocates. Governor Jerry Brown ordered the revision on June 18.
Governor Brown’s action comes a week after...
Blog Post: June 12, 2012
Furniture and other consumer products in California are being doused in toxic flame retardant chemicals—but it’s not providing real protection from deadly fires. Instead California residents are absorbing these cancer-causing chemicals into our bodies, while huge quantities are washed into...
E News: June 11, 2012
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Monthly Update for June 2012
Take Action to Control Flame Retardant Pollution
Baykeeper Earns Charity Navigator's Top 4-Star Rating
Progress to Protect Bay Wildlife from Oil Spills
Free App Locates Clean Water for Play in the Bay
Swim For The Bay on September 30
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Blog Post: June 11, 2012
To better understand how much ammonia is being discharged into the Bay from over 40 wastewater treatment plants that serve the towns and cities of the Bay Area, Baykeeper created an interactive map showing the scale of ammonia inputs from treatment plants to the Bay and its nearby tributaries....
Featured Stories: June 8, 2012
Which boat bottom paint causes the least pollution and still keeps the hull free of sea growth? Baykeeper just repainted our patrol boat, and answering this question wasn’t easy.
Boat hulls need to be painted with specialized coatings to keep algae, barnacles and other sea life from attaching and...
Blog Post: June 4, 2012
Charity Navigator, the nation’s leading evaluator of nonprofit organizations’ financial performance, has awarded San Francisco Baykeeper its top 4-star rating. This rating designates Baykeeper’s financial efficiency, accountability and transparency to be “Exceptional: Exceeds industry standards and...
Monthly Column: June 1, 2012
In the 1960s and early 70s, San Francisco Bay just plain stank. Raw or partly treated sewage entered the Bay in 83 places. Refineries, smelters, pesticide manufacturers and other industrial facilities pumped their waste directly into the Bay.
The Bay Area wasn’t alone. Across the nation, water...
BK In The News: June 1, 2012
A report released last week by Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica environmental group, revealed that while water quality at Bay Area beaches is generally high, it varies widely — and predictably — between bay and ocean beaches.
Press Release: May 31, 2012
San Francisco—Finding a Bay Area beach where the water is clean enough for swimming, surfing and other in-the-water recreation is going to be easier with San Francisco Baykeeper’s launch of the Swim Guide app. This new, free smart phone app provides up-to-date water quality information from...
Blog Post: May 31, 2012
Finding a Bay Area beach with water clean enough for swimming, surfing and other in-the-water recreation is going to be easier with Baykeeper’s launch of the Swim Guide app. This new, free smart phone app provides up-to-date water quality information from government authorities on more than a dozen...
