Baykeeper In The News
Articles and other news featuring Baykeeper's role in protecting the Bay
San Francisco Chronicle | March 25, 2019 | Wetland Protection
When grower Brad Goehring looks across his rows of grapes, he can’t help but see a pool of murky water that breaks the rhythm of his vines, which otherwise stretch steadily into the Sierra foothills... “It’s not just academic,” said Erica Maharg, managing attorney for San Francisco Baykeeper, another supporter of watershed protections. “There are...
East Bay Times | March 25, 2019 | Events
Earth Day Estuary Cleanup: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 20, Jack London Aquatic Center, 115 Embarcadero, Oakland. Help remove garbage from the Oakland Estuary with cleanup teams working on water and land. Volunteers who want to get out on the water can bring their own watercraft and paddle to hard-to-reach trash hotspots with members of the local water...
Estuary News | March 21, 2019 | Freshwater flows
The winter kicked off with the State Water Resources Control Board’s December vote to adopt increased flow objectives ... "Governor Newsom has staked out turf against the Trump Administration," says San Francisco Baykeeper’s Jon Rosenfield. "Water management and endangered species are going to be the first real test of that."
Estuary News | March 21, 2019 | Advocacy
... “If resource agencies cannot rely on long-term funding, they cannot implement long-term monitoring programs, which means we cannot track long-term trends. And if we cannot track trends we won’t know if our ecosystems are changing — and that seems to be the intent of the federal bureaucracy these days,” says Ian Wren, a staff scientist with...
East Bay Express | March 20, 2019 | Coal
After withdrawal of a 2018 proposal to regulate the dirty fuel, city councilmember proposes an eventual export ban... And the nonprofit Baykeeper sent speakers to the Richmond City Council and signed letters supporting the move to ban coal and petcoke. In settlement of a Baykeeper lawsuit, the Levin Terminal cleaned up its previous "really messy...
KQED Forum | March 12, 2019 | Freshwater flows
Forum Panel with SF Baykeeper Senior Scientist Jon Rosenfield and KQED Reporter Lauren Sommer: President Trump is trying to speed up the approval process for a proposal to send more water to Central Valley farmers, something he promised to do during his 2016 campaign. A KQED investigation found that the president is pushing for a recommendation by...
KQED | March 7, 2019 | Freshwater flows
The Trump Administration has ordered federal biologists to speed up critical decisions about whether to send more water from Northern California to farmers in the Central Valley ... “It’s not science, basically,” says Jon Rosenfield, senior scientist with San Francisco Baykeeper, an environmental group in San Francisco. “It’s an extraordinarily...
No Coal in Oakland | March 7, 2019 | Events
San Francisco Baykeeper presented No Coal in Oakland with a Blue Rivet Award at their annual dinner on March 3. These awards recognize Bay Area businesses, community groups, and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the health of San Francisco Bay. As the rivets of the Golden Gate Bridge hold the structure together, activists...
Robert Rivas, Assemblymember, District 30 | February 28, 2019 | Oil Spills
Today Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) announced his environmental bill package... “Unlike lighter oils that float and eventually evaporate, heavy non-floating oils sink, smothering wildlife,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of San Francisco Baykeeper. “AB 936 helps prevent and respond to a spill that could cause irreversible...
San Francisco Chronicle | February 13, 2019 | Advocacy
If the California Department of Transportation fails to clean up the heaps of garbage on Bay Area roadways that often end up in San Francisco Bay, it will be hit with fines. . . As a result of a lawsuit by the nonprofit group Baykeeper, San Jose agreed to invest $100 million over the next decade to reduce sewage and trash pollution to the Bay. .