BK In The News: April 24, 2021
The 1,400-acre Redwood City salt ponds along the San Francisco Bay Trail are coveted by environmentalists and developers. In 2009, the property owner, a Cargill subsidiary, proposed putting 12,000 housing units as well as commercial buildings on the site. Environmental groups, led by San Francisco...
BK In The News: April 23, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – KRON4 is celebrating Earth Week by drawing attention to some of the biggest environmental challenges in the Bay Area.
The pandemic has made PPE – such as face masks – life-saving accessories, but much of it is disposable and ends up littering our beaches and waterways.
KRON4’...
BK In The News: April 22, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO - People who make their livings fighting to protect the Bay Area say the region is a lot healthier than it was when Earth Day began in the 1970s. "But it is still not as clean as it could be. It is not in great shape right now," said Cole Burchiel, field investigator for San Francisco...
E News: April 20, 2021
Monthly Update for April 2021
Zeneca’s Toxic Past in Richmond
Cargill Gives Up Nonsensical Legal Challenge to Salt Ponds Ruling
The Last Gasp of the Longfin Smelt
Nothing Fluffy About Auto Fluff
Gas Exploration—in Bay Marshlands?
It’s Earth Week! Show Your Love for SF Bay
Drink &...
BK In The News: April 16, 2021
Cargill this week withdrew its appeal of a federal ruling that reinstated U.S. Clean Water Act (CWA) protections for the Redwood City Salt Ponds, marking the latest legal victory for environmental groups that have long battled development of the 1,365-acre site. CWA protections do not preclude the...
Blog Post: April 16, 2021
Nicole Sasaki, an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, was watching the news one day in 2007 when she learned about Baykeeper. A cargo ship named Cosco Busan had spilled more than 53,000 gallons of oil into the Bay, killing wildlife and closing beaches. Nicole was impressed by Baykeeper’s immediate...
Featured Stories: April 16, 2021
Sometimes justice delayed is justice denied. And so it could be with the Bay’s longfin smelt.
This native fish population has declined 99.9 percent since the late 1980s, signaling widespread decline in the larger San Francisco Bay ecosystem. Identifying this fish as a federally endangered species —...
BK In The News: April 16, 2021
A developer just got the green light to build thousands of homes on bay in South Richmond, near a known contaminated site. Cheryl Hurd reports.
Featured Stories: April 15, 2021
This past February, I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting when my cell phone started buzzing. Texts were coming in from Richmond residents alerting us to an oil spill near Chevron’s tanker wharf. I quickly wrapped things up and called our field investigator—and happily discovered he was already on...
BK In The News: April 15, 2021
In what environmental groups are hailing as a “complete victory,” Cargill Salt announced this week it will not appeal a decision by a federal judge that protects Redwood City’s salt ponds from development, effectively halting its decades-long effort to build thousands of new homes there.
The move...
