Blog Post: October 6, 2014
Baykeeper recently joined with Waterkeeper organizations across the country to urge federal regulators to tighten lax regulations on crude oil shipped by rail. The amount of crude oil shipped by rail in the US has skyrocketed in recent years due to the increase of oil production in North Dakota and...
Blog Post: October 6, 2014
Ten years ago, San Francisco Baykeeper won a major victory for protecting California waterways from pesticides, when we secured the first regulations on agricultural pesticides in the nation. This year Baykeeper is celebrating 25 years of work to defend the Bay from pollution, and looking back at...
Blog Post: October 6, 2014
On Saturday, September 20, as swimmers in the annual Dolphin Club Alcatraz Swim were heading into San Francisco’s Aquatic Park, an oil slick drifted across their path. Several swimmers were oiled and a historic rowing boat was left with a “bathtub ring” of oil. So were all of the historic boats at...
Blog Post: October 3, 2014
San Francisco Baykeeper is looking for an enthusiastic volunteer intern to conduct in-depth research and analysis and develop informational materials related to pollution in San Francisco Bay. The intern will develop an understanding about the Bay's watershed, pollution threats, environmental...
Monthly Column: October 1, 2014
Long freight trains, with tank cars full of crude oil, chugging daily along San Francisco Bay’s shore? That’s the oil industry’s plan—to expand the shipment of crude oil into the Bay Area by train.
Shipping lots more crude oil here by rail would create a huge risk of oil being spilled into the Bay...
BK In The News: September 19, 2014
Ocean Beach has a serious erosion problem. Sand, flows from the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta and other tributaries into the San Francisco Bay. Currents carry the sediment out the Golden Gate, where it helps replenish coastal beaches to the south. But human activicty has reduced the amount of sand...
E News: September 16, 2014
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Monthly Update for September 2014
Pitch In at Coastal Cleanup Day this Saturday
Standing Up Against Crude Oil Shipped in Tank Cars Along the Bay Shore
New Bay-Safe Industry Victory to Keep Toxics Out of the Bay
25th Anniversary Flash from the Past: Dow Chemical Required to Clean Up Its...
Blog Post: September 16, 2014
Baykeeper and more than 150 of our supporters recently stood up for San Francisco Bay and against Valero Energy Corporation’s plan to enlarge the rail yard at its Benicia oil refinery.
If Valero gets its way, long trains of tank cars filled with explosion-prone crude oil will run beside Suisun Bay...
Blog Post: September 15, 2014
In 2002, Baykeeper compelled Dow Chemical’s Pittsburg plant to keep dangerous toxic chemicals from contaminating Suisun Bay, an inlet of San Francisco Bay.
Dow’s pollution included a long list of chemicals that cause cancer and reproductive harm, including chlorinated solvents. In addition to...
Blog Post: September 12, 2014
Valero Energy Corporation wants to enlarge the rail yard at its Benicia oil refinery to ship in more crude oil by tank car.
If Valero gets its way, long trains filled with explosion-prone crude oil will run beside Suisun Bay, a San Francisco Bay inlet and important wildlife habitat area. Oil...
