Baykeeper Updates Related to Bay-Safe Industry

Blog Post: July 11, 2023
It’s a cruel irony that the process of recycling plastic, cardboard, metals, and other materials can be harmful to the environment. Recycling facilities are often covered in contaminants—everything from fuel to solvents—and sometimes the recyclable materials themselves contain toxic metals or...
Blog Post: March 13, 2023
A few years ago, Baykeeper skipper Jeff Wasserman and his wife Julie were kayaking along the Alameda shoreline on a lazy Saturday afternoon when they noticed something glittering in the embankment. Intrigued, Jeff and Julie navigated closer and were surprised to find that the shore was studded with...
BK In The News: March 1, 2023
The owners of a facility that manufactured parts for the aviation industry must clean up metal shavings that are contaminating an estuary in California, under a deal to settle a lawsuit brought by an environmental group. In addition to the cleanup, the companies must pay $25,000 to the Rose...
BK In The News: December 8, 2022
On a pot-holed street at the edge of San Francisco's southeastern shoreline, the scent of progress wafts through the air — and it reeks. Some have described the odors as "gut-pinching." Others, nauseating. Many more say it's downright disgusting. It's actually the smell of death: of countless...
Blog Post: July 20, 2022
In a recent roundup of industrial polluters around the Bay, our pollution monitoring team encountered a familiar name: Granite Rock. Granite Rock is a mining and construction company with several facilities around the Bay Area. In 2007 and in 2016, we took legal action against the company for...
Press Release: April 19, 2022
Oakland—The Superior Court of California, Alameda County, ruled yesterday that the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) must regulate toxic metal shredder waste from Schnitzer Steel as hazardous waste. Previously, metal shredder waste in California was treated as nonhazardous...
Blog Post: March 16, 2022
Fifty years ago, America’s waterways were choked with sewage and industrial runoff. Cities, corporations, and individuals treated bodies of water across the country, including San Francisco Bay, like dumps. Wastewater plants released raw sewage directly into the Bay and industrial facilities spewed...
Blog Post: February 16, 2022
A metal plating company in Fremont, Global Plating, has long avoided Clean Water Act requirements by claiming to have no industrial activities outdoors. But after collecting stormwater samples, Baykeeper scientists found unusually high levels of chromium and other heavy metals flowing into the Bay...
Blog Post: September 10, 2021
Polluters don’t like getting caught. They get defensive—even when our field team catches them red-handed with photos and water sampling results demonstrating serious pollution violations. After we sue them, some polluters push back with empty threats and others drag their feet. That’s why Baykeeper...
BK In The News: July 15, 2021
A metal plating company allowed excessive amounts of chromium, nickel, and other pollutants to pollute nearby waters through stormwater runoff, an environmental group said in a citizen suit in the Northern District of California. San Francisco Baykeeper alleged Global Plating Inc. discharged...

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