Baykeeper In The News
Articles and other news featuring Baykeeper's role in protecting the Bay
KRON4 News | July 19, 2018 | Advocacy
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - The quality of the water in San Francisco Bay is showing improvement after decades of aggressive ongoing environmental initiatives. SF Baykeeper is one of several bay water watchdogs reporting an improvement. "In the 1960's it was really bad before clean water acts," said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of SF...
The Daily Californian | July 18, 2018 | Advocacy
Recently, the water quality in the San Francisco Bay has been showing signs of improvement, partly thanks to decades of environmental cleanup efforts... Nonprofit environmental advocacy organization San Francisco Baykeeper, or SF Baykeeper, is in its 29th year of working to improve the bay’s water quality. The organization monitors industrial...
San Francisco Chronicle | July 16, 2018 | Events
Chronicle photographers captured images ranging from the inauguration of London Breed at San Francisco’s City Hall, the fifth annual Bay Parade in San Francisco and the opening of the California Trail exhibit at the Oakland Zoo.
San Francisco Chronicle | July 15, 2018 | Events
The amazing thing about the 35 people who swam for miles in the San Francisco Bay on Sunday — besides that they swam for miles in the San Francisco Bay — is that they came out of the water soiled only by saltwater. Maybe some seaweed... Baykeeper’s fifth annual Bay Parade is expected to raise $100,000 for the organization that sued the federal...
San Francisco Chronicle | July 5, 2018 | Bay Defense
Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned after facing months of allegations over legal and ethical violations... “If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say Trump’s administration is probably thrilled to have Wheeler,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a nonprofit...
Vallejo Times Herald | June 25, 2018 | Bay Defense
The whole Orcem slag grinding cement factory ordeal is getting extremely tiresome and needs to be voted down by the Vallejo City Council. The only problem is several members of the council want to drag this on in order to be “fair” to Orcem. Their words, not mine. ... San Francisco Baykeeper, Napa Solano Audubon Society, Vallejo Commission for the...
East Bay Express | June 14, 2018 | Coal
The city of Oakland filed an appeal yesterday in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to salvage its coal ban... The Sierra Club and Baykeeper, two environmental groups that supported the coal ban, have also indicated that they plan to contest Chhabria's decision.
KQED News - The California Report | June 6, 2018 | Oil Spills
Shell OIl Co.'s illegal release of hazardous materials from its refinery in Martinez puts nearby communities and San Francisco Bay at major risk, says Baykeeper Executive Director Sejal Choksi-Chugh. Instead of the minor fine imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, "the company should have been fined an amount that would have ensured they...
Waterkeeper Alliance | June 4, 2018 | Freshwater flows
"The twin tunnels could go down in history as the largest, most expensive infrastructure project ever built in California, yet many of the project approvals are being done through backroom deals and administrative decisions without public or legislative input,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, the San Francisco Baykeeper.
San Francisco Examiner | May 24, 2018 | Toxic Pollutants
Unknown perpetrators have thrown at least two electric motor scooters into San Francisco Bay, according to an environmental watchdog group. San Francisco Baykeeper, a nonprofit guarding the bay from pollution since 1989, recently held e-scooter company Lime to task on social media, asking the company to retrieve its scooter from the Bay’s...