Every year, the Baykeeper team takes a field trip to explore the San Francisco Bay we work to protect. We’ve toured the Bay Model in Sausalito, visited the Fisher Bay Observatory at the Exploratorium, explored the SF shoreline with Kayaks Unlimited, and cruised the Bay with the Marine Science Institute.
Oakland—Following two years of exceptionally dry conditions, the East Bay Utility District's board of directors voted Tuesday evening (April 27) to declare a stage one drought, and asked rate payers to reduce their water use by 10 percent.
Sometimes justice delayed is justice denied. And so it could be with the Bay’s longfin smelt.
This native fish population has declined 99.9 percent since the late 1980s, signaling widespread decline in the larger San Francisco Bay ecosystem. Identifying this fish as a federally endangered species —something Baykeeper has sought since 1992—is long overdue.
Like many of the Bay’s native fish and wildlife species, longfin smelt are sensitive to the amount of fresh water that flows into the Bay from its tribu
Nicole Sasaki, an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, was watching the news one day in 2007 when she learned about Baykeeper. A cargo ship named Cosco Busan had spilled more than 53,000 gallons of oil into the Bay, killing wildlife and closing beaches. Nicole was impressed by Baykeeper’s immediate response to hold both polluters and cleanup agencies accountable. She was also pleased to see that Baykeeper’s executive director and lead attorney were both women.
Piles of shredded metal at Schnizter Steel in West Oakland
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 nothing fluffy about auto fluff, which often contains toxic substances like lead, cadmium, and gasoline. In the absence of pollution controls, the smallest particles become airborne, where they can be inhaled. The rest sink into the surrounding soil and water.
Today, Redwood City Salt Plant, LLC, an affiliate of Cargill Incorporated, the largest privately held company in the United States, abandoned its latest attempt to facilitate sel
This past February, I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting when my cell phone started buzzing. Texts were coming in from Richmond residents alerting us to an oil spill near Chevron’s tanker wharf. I quickly wrapped things up and called our field investigator—and happily discovered he was already on his way, because someone had also notified our hotline.
In this roundtable discussion moderated by Baykeeper Senior Scientist Dr. Jon Rosenfield, a panel of water experts discusses California's infamous "water wars" and the award-winning documentary River's End.
Victory for Salt Ponds, San Francisco Bay—and for Common Sense
The EPA today abandoned a Trump-era attempt to remove federal Clean Water Act protections from the South Bay salt ponds, which would have facilitated property owner Cargill selling off the wetlands to be paved over and developed.
