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SF Baykeeper Sues Water-Discharging Businesses

Law Street Media

On Thursday, plaintiff San Francisco Baykeeper filed suit against Amports, Inc APS West Coast, Benicia Port Terminal Company, and Valero Refining Company in the Northern District of California. San...

Watchdog on the water: Group uses drones to monitor the ‘fragile ecosystem’ of the Bay

San Francisco Examiner

On a brisk February morning, Cole Burchiel hopped onto a small boat near Oracle Park and greeted skipper Tracy Rogers as the sun burned off the morning cloud cover. As the vessel pulled away from...

Will Salmon Simmer Again?

Estuary News

After two critically dry years that coincided with Trump-era rollbacks to environmental protections, some iconic Delta fish are closer than ever to the point of no return. Last fall, for the second...

New settlement in Oakland will derail plan to export Utah coal through California

The Salt Lake Tribune

A controversial plan by Utah officials to export Utah-mined coal through Oakland has been derailed by an agreement between the California port city and developers resolving years of litigation. No...

Oakland close to settlement over plan to ship bulk products to former army base

Local News Matters

Oakland is a step closer to revolving litigation over a stalled project to develop a bulk commodity terminal on the site of the former Oakland Army Base. City Attorney Barbara J. Parker said the...

Groups Demand Action Now as Seas Rise

East Bay Express

The sea is already rising, nibbling at vulnerable East Bay communities....  Local environmental and community groups are pushing back strongly against city governments and developers who...

If the Supreme Court rolls back the Clean Water Act, California will be ready — thanks to Trump

San Francisco Chronicle

The Supreme Court appears ready to narrow the scope of the Clean Water Act, eliminating protections for many inland streams and wetlands that feed rivers, lakes and bays. But California is also ready...

Low numbers of baby salmon portend disaster for endangered California fish

San Francisco Chronicle

Alarmingly low numbers of baby salmon are surviving their journey down the Sacramento River to the sea, confirming conservationists’ fears that low flows and high river temperatures during the...

Environmentalists blast California’s revised metal shredding rules

InsideEPA

Environmentalists are blasting a proposed new emergency regulation by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) that appears to modify an earlier emergency rule on metal shredding...

Richmond reaches settlement to proceed with coal ban by 2027

San Francisco Chronicle

After legal battles with the coal industry, Richmond has reached an agreement with its shipping port and its suppliers to halt shipments and storage of coal by the end of 2026, eliminating the dust-...

Richmond City Council, Levin Terminal Plan to Phase Out Handling Coal, ‘Petcoke’ by 2026

KPIX CBS SF Bay Area

RICHMOND (CBS SF) — Richmond city officials on Friday announced a new plan for the city to phase out the handling of coal and “petcoke” at the Levin Richmond Marine Terminal in the next five years,...

Toxins Long Buried May Surface as Groundwater Rises

NBC Bay Area

An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals a present danger from toxic materials, some buried more than a century ago. Scientists are only now beginning to understand the urgent threat as new science...

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