Steelhead trout and Chinook salmon will have a better chance of survival in San Jose’s Coyote Creek and in San Francisco Bay, thanks to Baykeeper’s successful legal action against GreenWaste Recovery, Inc.
GreenWaste, a San Jose recycling facility, has polluted Coyote Creek, which flows to the Bay, with contaminants that include heavy metals that are toxic to fish. GreenWaste recently signed a legally-binding agreement with Baykeeper requiring the company to stop the pollution.
July 25th is the first ever Swimmable California Day. The California Legislature has proclaimed Swimmable California Day to recognize Californians’ rights to coastal areas, beaches, estuaries, rivers, streams, and lakes that are clean and safe for swimming and other activities.
Baykeeper is joining with our nine California Waterkeeper organizations and with our statewide association, the California Coastkeeper Alliance, to celebrate healthy California waters and the regulations that protect them.
Super-fast sailboats are racing through San Francisco Bay this month and during August, leading up to the America’s Cup championship races in September.
If you’ll be watching the America’s Cup from a boat or from shore, check out Baykeeper’s tips for protecting the Bay as you enjoy the sailboats zooming by:
GreenTeam of San Jose recently agreed to install controls to prevent the recycling facility’s toxic runoff pollution of San Francisco Bay. Baykeeper sued the company after documenting that GreenTeam has polluted the Bay with oil, grease, and heavy metals that include aluminum, copper, iron, zinc, and lead.
Are you interested in getting out in the field for a healthy Bay? Baykeeper seeks Volunteer Pollution Investigators for 2013 to help us find out which industrial facilities are polluting San Francisco Bay.
The Bay Area’s worst-polluting sewer agencies are spilling less sewage into San Francisco Bay, thanks to Baykeeper’s Sick of Sewage campaign.
Sewage pollution has been one of the most serious threats to the Bay’s health due to crumbling Bay Area sewer infrastructure. During the rainy season, millions of gallons of partially treated and raw sewage have spilled directly into the Bay or into storm drains, creeks, rivers, and sloughs that empty into the Bay.
For the second time this year, thanks to Baykeeper’s advocacy, a polluting metal and vehicle recycler on the Oakland Estuary has been told it is still not doing enough to keep toxic dust out of San Francisco Bay—and that it must do better.
Schnitzer Steel has long been one of the Bay’s worst industrial runoff polluters. As a result of recommendations Baykeeper made last year, the Regional Water Board strengthened its order for Schnitzer to reduce pollution. The Board added a requirement to keep airborne dust containing toxic waste from blowing and washing into San Francisco Bay.
Baykeeper is working to end the destructive and unregulated practice of fracking to extract gas and oil from wells across California. Because California has no regulation of this process, oil companies are being allowed to extract oil from our state’s bedrock with no protections in place for the environment and public health.
Some of the last remaining undeveloped land on the San Francisco Bay shoreline in Santa Clara County should not be paved and turned over for private development, Baykeeper recently told San Jose city planners. Instead, the land should be preserved and restored to benefit native wildlife and provide recreational opportunities for the community.
The U.S. government has designated San Francisco Bay and Estuary as a Wetland of International Importance under an international treaty called the Ramsar Convention.
Ramsar Convention officials announced the inclusion of the Bay on February 1, in concert with World Wetlands Day. The designation helps raise awareness about the critical ecological services provided by the Bay's wetlands and can help advocates succeed in winning additional protections for the Bay.
