Baykeeper In The News
Articles and other news featuring Baykeeper's role in protecting the Bay
San Francisco Chronicle | April 8, 2021 | Fish and Marine Life
A tiny silver fish few people in the Bay Area have heard of could be a new symbol of the state’s continuing battle over water resources. San Francisco Baykeeper sued the Biden administration on Thursday to list the local population of longfin smelt as an endangered species. The environmental group’s legal action comes nine years after the federal...
Mercury News | April 6, 2021 | Sick of Sewage
State water pollution officials have hit the city of Sunnyvale with $187,000 penalty after the city’s wastewater treatment plant spilled more than a quarter million gallons of partially treated sewage into San Francisco Bay last summer.
The spill occurred on July 29 when a 36-inch welded steel pipeline ruptured, releasing 292,600 gallons — the...
The Athletic | April 5, 2021 | Toxic Pollutants
Last August, shortly after the A’s filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court against the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), A’s president Dave Kaval sent out a series of tweets. The lawsuit alleged that DTSC had failed to implement the state’s Hazardous Waste Law against Schnitzer Steel, a steel manufacturing and...
CalMatters | March 31, 2021 | Freshwater flows
By Jon Rosenfield, Special to CalMatters
San Francisco Bay’s life support systems are unravelling quickly, and a wealth of science indicates that unsustainable water diversions are driving this estuary’s demise.
Yet, with another drought looming, federal and state water managers still plan to divert large amounts of water to their contractors and...
Capital & Main | March 30, 2021 | Oil Spills
The morning after a quarter-inch hole in a pipeline owned by Chevron leaked petroleum fluids into the San Francisco Bay on February 9, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt struck an optimistic tone about the incident at the oil giant’s refinery.
“I think in the big picture it’s going to be OK,” Butt told one local press outlet.
On his blog several days later,...
The Quint | March 30, 2021 | About Baykeeper
‘Water warrior’ Sejal’s passion for conservation has been shaped significantly by her childhood experiences. Riding an elephant, little Sejal started crying when she was about one-fourth the way up a hill to visit a fort, during one of her family’s vacations to India. Atlanta, US-born Sejal could not bear to see the torture being meted out to the...
San Francisco Chronicle | March 26, 2021 | Fossil Fuels
A Brentwood company’s proposal to drill a natural gas well in Suisun Marsh has become the latest flash point in California’s quest to fight climate change and transition away from fossil fuels.
Sunset Exploration wants to search for a commercially viable amount of gas at the site of an abandoned well in the wetlands south of Suisun City. If the...
Daily Republic | March 24, 2021 | Events
A San Francisco environmental group has recognized Fresh Air Vallejo with its Blue Rivet Award for the work the group did to stop a cement factory from winning approval.
The award was presented Sunday at the annual San Francisco Baykeeper dinner, which was held virtually this year.
Estuary News | March 23, 2021 | Freshwater flows
As California stares down the barrel of yet another dry year, alarm bells are already ringing over conditions in the Delta. Environmental groups, fishermen, tribes, and a host of others are calling on the State Water Resources Control Board to complete and implement a long-delayed update to the Water Quality Control Plan for the Bay and Delta (Bay...
Estuary News | March 23, 2021 | Oil Spills
Oil spills in San Francisco Bay are frequent news, but for those old enough to remember there is only one Great Oil Spill, the disaster of January 18, 1971.
In a predawn darkness thickened by heavy fog, two small Chevron tankers were maneuvering through the strait. At San Francisco’s Pier 45, Coast Guard technicians were just then testing a novel...