Baykeeper Updates Related to Toxic Pollutants

BK In The News: April 16, 2021
A developer just got the green light to build thousands of homes on bay in South Richmond, near a known contaminated site. Cheryl Hurd reports.
Blog Post: April 14, 2021
What do you think would happen if you took a giant chainsaw to an SUV? If you imagined metal shards and particles of plastic and foam flying in every direction, you wouldn’t be far off! The high-impact process of industrial metal shredding generates a by-product known as “auto fluff.” But there is...
BK In The News: April 5, 2021
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...
BK In The News: February 23, 2021
State environmental regulators surprised an Oakland metal recycling facility on Tuesday with a 97-page "Enforcement Order for Corrective Action," directing its owner to prepare a plan to clean up hazardous waste produced in its operations... Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of Baykeeper, an...
BK In The News: February 3, 2021
Just west of the Carquinez Bridge in Contra Costa County is a site that looks like a big parking lot, but underneath are toxic heavy metals. Environmentalists warn that rising sea levels due to climate change could unleash these toxins into the San Francisco Bay. The land is owned by the State...
Press Release: January 8, 2021
OAKLAND (Jan. 8, 2021) – Environmental justice and conservation groups filed an amicus brief today, calling on the California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) to regulate metal shredding facilities throughout the state.   Filed by Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), Center on ...
Blog Post: November 16, 2020
All around the Bay Area, hundreds of industrial facilities allow their polluted runoff to seep into the watershed—a slow drip of toxic waste that turns into a deluge every time it rains. At Baykeeper, we’re working to put a stop to this widespread source of pollution. Our scientists and lawyers...
BK In The News: October 31, 2020
Napa Sanitation District is marking a county-transfiguring anniversary—it formed 75 years ago to turn the Napa River from an “open cesspool” with raw sewage into a water recreation draw... “It’s unacceptable to trade clean water for better smelling air,” said Jonathan Kaplan of San Francisco...
BK In The News: October 23, 2020
Business, science and politics collide on contaminated sites... Another site Baykeeper told me it keeping an eye on is Selby Slag, a 66-acre state superfund site near Crockett that the nonprofit says is so polluted that ...
Press Release: October 16, 2020
Oakland, CA — Baykeeper and the US Coast Guard reached an agreement today that requires the federal agency to make significant changes to reduce heavy metals and other pollutants from its Yerba Buena Island facility in San Francisco Bay. The agreement also requires the Coast Guard to put a civilian...

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