Press Release: April 16, 2024
RALLY FOR THE RIVER! A DIVERSE COALITION WILL PROTEST SFPUC WATER POLICIES THAT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT, FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES, TRIBES, COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN AND RATEPAYERS.
Tuolumne River Trust, Save California Salmon, Restore the Delta, Golden State Salmon Association, Sierra Club California, Delta...
Blog Post: March 28, 2024
In celebration of our 35th year of defending San Francisco Bay, each month we’re sharing significant victories that we’ve won together and highlighting how they’re still making waves today.
In the early 2000s, a frustrated Richmond resident called Baykeeper’s pollution hotline. She reported that a...
BK In The News: March 15, 2024
San Francisco Baykeeper announced Tuesday, March 13, that it has issued a notice of intent to take legal action against the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the City and County of San Francisco for repeated violations of the Clean Water Act. The nonprofit watchdog organization...
Press Release: March 14, 2024
Baykeeper Issues Notice to Sue SFPUC for Hundreds of Clean Water Act Violations
Oakland, CA—San Francisco Baykeeper recently issued a notice of intent to take legal action against the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the City and County of San Francisco for repeated...
Column: February 29, 2024
"Thank you for suing us." The first time I heard those words from a defendant in a Baykeeper case many years ago, I was surprised and thought it was meant sarcastically. Then I heard it again a couple of years later from another defendant, and by the fifth or sixth time a defendant expressed their...
BK In The News: January 22, 2024
When it comes to the environment, Sunnyvale and Mountain View have a pretty green image, spending millions on bike lanes, solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations.
But their tactics in an ongoing court case — in which their lawyers claimed major Bay Area creeks should not be protected...
Press Release: December 12, 2023
Court Rules Bay Waters Remain Protected Under Clean Water Act
Baykeeper Defends Clean Water Act Against Attack by South Bay Cities
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order late yesterday denying an effort by the cities of Mountain View and...
BK In The News: November 21, 2023
The Rintaro restaurant staff was preparing osechi — a traditional meal to celebrate Japanese New Year. They’d been working on it all week, and on Dec. 31, 2022, they were just putting on the finishing touches.
That’s when they noticed water rising through the floor drains.
The staff climbed onto...
BK In The News: January 30, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Tens of millions of gallons of sewage and stormwater were released into San Francisco Bay from aging treatment plants and stormwater systems that were overwhelmed by the deluge.
Sejal Choksi-Chugh is the Executive Director of San Francisco Baykeeper, an environmental group...
BK In The News: January 20, 2023
The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only...