Blog Post: November 6, 2015
To: Terry Young, Ph.D., Chair, and Members
San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board
I strongly support the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board’s work to update the rules for protecting San Francisco Bay from trash pollution. These rules are contained in the...
Blog Post: November 5, 2015
Baykeeper recently took action in a long-running fight to prevent development on 1,365 acres of former south San Francisco Bay wetlands. The area, used for decades to manufacture salt, is known as the Cargill salt ponds.
Cargill, Inc. and a developer, DMB Redwood City Saltworks, are trying to get...
BK In The News: November 5, 2015
Mercury, a potent neurotoxin, builds up in fish and can cause serious illness in both humans and wildlife. “Mercury is invisible and prevalent throughout San Francisco Bay,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper. Despite cleanup efforts, Bay fish still have high...
Blog Post: November 3, 2015
The 35-mile tunnels proposed to route freshwater from the northern end of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to pumps on the southern end have a new name, the California Water Fix. But that doesn’t change the harm that this project, estimated to cost $25 billion, would cause to San Francisco Bay. The...
Monthly Column: November 2, 2015
This year, record numbers of starving seals and sea lions have washed up on California beaches, including those in the Bay Area. In recent months, hundreds of young common murres—sea birds that look like small penguins—have been discovered dead or dying on beaches in more than a dozen Bay Area...
E News: October 14, 2015
Monthly Update for October 2015
Baykeeper Challenges Oakland Coal Export Terminal
Victory! Governor Signs 3 Bills for New Oil Spill Protections
Victory! Governor Signs California Ban on Plastic Microbeads
Victory! Marin Concrete Plant Agrees to Keep Toxic Runoff Out of the Bay
Tomorrow Night:...
Blog Post: October 9, 2015
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed three bills that will help protect San Francisco Bay and all California coastal waters from oil spills.
Baykeeper advocated for all three bills, joining with California Coastkeeper Alliance, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, Environmental Defense Center, and many...
Blog Post: October 9, 2015
In a win for a safer San Francisco Bay, Governor Jerry Brown recently signed AB 888, a statewide ban on the sale of consumer products containing plastic microbeads. The nation’s strongest ban so far, the law does not include an exception included in bans passed in other states that allow so-called...
BK In The News: October 6, 2015
Nearly a year after San Jose shut down the Bay Area’s biggest homeless encampment, hundreds still live along city creeks. . . The environmental group Baykeeper announced a lawsuit against the city in 2014, over the hazards that large “rafts” of trash and fecal bacteria posed to public health and...
Blog Post: October 5, 2015
Shamrock Materials, Inc. recently agreed to implement pollution controls at its San Rafael concrete production plant in order to protect San Francisco Bay from contaminated runoff. Baykeeper brought suit under the Clean Water Act based on the company’s reports of pollution in storm water running...
