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Bay Area beaches get top marks for water quality in report for spring and summer

Marin Independent Journal | May 24, 2013
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Marin county beaches have some of cleanest water in the state during spring and summer, according to an annual Beach Report Card released Thursday. "In the summer the water quality is generally very good," said Deb Self, executive director of San Francisco BayKeeper, a bay pollution watchdog group. "But the bay tends to have bacterial problems ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Most Bay Area beaches clean, report says

San Francisco Chronicle | May 24, 2013
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Water quality at most Bay Area beaches remains clean and clear, according to a report released Thursday. .Almost all Bay Area beaches have zero or very low levels of bacteria from sewage, agricultural runoff or animal waste during the dry season. In the rainy season, sewage overflows and storm runoff can bring dangerous levels of bacteria to ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Coast Guard, shipping officials pass new rules to restrict large ships from sailing near Bay Bridge in heavy fog

Daily Democrat | February 25, 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to reduce the risk of major oil spills in San Francisco Bay, the Coast Guard and other top shipping officials Thursday passed new rules to limit cargo ships, oil tankers and other large vessels from sailing near the Bay Bridge in heavy fog. . . Deb Self, executive director of the environmental group Baykeeper, praised ...READ FULL ARTICLE

A new spotlight of conservation on the Bay

Richmond Confidential | February 25, 2013
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An international treaty recently recognized the San Francisco Bay estuary — California’s largest wetland — as a “wetland of importance,” but while conservation groups called the news a victory, the designation won’t directly halt development that has threatened the area for years. . . .“It’s important to have a little more weight on our side ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Coast Guard, shipping officials pass new rules to restrict large ships from sailing near Bay Bridge in heavy fog

San Jose Mercury News | February 14, 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to reduce the risk of major oil spills in San Francisco Bay, the Coast Guard and other top shipping officials Thursday passed new rules to limit cargo ships, oil tankers and other large vessels from sailing near the Bay Bridge in heavy fog. . .  Deb Self, executive director of Baykeeper, praised the decision. "I'm ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Ship pilot blamed for 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay sues Coast Guard to get his mariner's license back

San Jose Mercury News | February 12, 2013
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The pilot who crashed the Cosco Busan cargo ship into the Bay Bridge in 2007, causing the worst oil spill in the bay in two decades, has sued the U.S. Coast Guard in an effort to regain his mariner's license so he can sail again. . . ."He's shown that he didn't have the medical fitness or sound judgment to be sailing ships," said Deb Self, ...READ FULL ARTICLE

U.S. Places San Francisco Bay-Estuary Under Treaty Protection

Environmental News Service | February 4, 2013
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The United States has named the San Francisco Bay and Estuary as its 35th Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention, effective on World Wetlands Day, February 2.Deb Self, executive director of the nonprofit San Francisco Baykeeper, said of the designation, “It’s terrific news. I hope that it will raise awareness about the ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Video of Baykeeper Executive Director Deb Self's presentation at Albany Library

KALB Channel 33 | January 18, 2013
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Watch the video of Baykeeper Executive Director Deb Self's presentation at the Albany Library, "The Health of San Francisco Bay" on local pollution issues that affect the Bay’s Albany shoreline, and how to be a good Bay citizen. Presentation was January 14, 2013, video is one hour.READ FULL ARTICLE

After tanker crash, officials reconsider allowing large ships to sail in fog near the Bay Bridge

San Jose Mercury News | January 11, 2013
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Three days after a 752-foot oil tanker sideswiped a tower of the Bay Bridge under foggy conditions, the top Coast Guard official in the Bay Area on Thursday called for a reconsideration of rules that allow large ships to sail in fog near the Bay Bridge.The request by Capt. Cynthia Stowe to the San Francisco Bay Harbor Safety Committee follows a ...READ FULL ARTICLE

Bay Bridge was exempted from rules limiting large ships from sailing in fog

San Jose Mercury News | January 9, 2013
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After the cargo ship Cosco Busan sailed through heavy fog and hit a tower of the Bay Bridge five years ago, spilling 53,000 gallons of bunker fuel, the Coast Guard and shipping officials wrote new rules to limit large ships from sailing in risky areas of San Francisco Bay when visibility is less than a half mile.But they left out one key risk: ...READ FULL ARTICLE