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Baykeeper Joins State of California in Holding Railroads Responsible for Oil Spills, Disaster Planning

San Francisco — Today, San Francisco Baykeeper and a coalition of concerned citizen groups, sportfishermen, and environmental organizations joined with the State of California in a lawsuit to defend...

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Help Protect the Bay in Your Home this Winter

For San Francisco Bay, winter can bring a surge of pollution from sewage. The primary cause is heavy rains that fill storm drains and infiltrate leaky sewer pipes, causing spills and overflows of raw...

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Baykeeper Announces Intent to Sue San Jose to Stop Pollution of San Francisco Bay

San Francisco, CA (November 24, 2014) Today San Francisco Baykeeper sent the City of San Jose a notice that Baykeeper intends to sue the city for failing to keep trash, fecal bacteria, and other...

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Baykeeper Announces Intent to Sue San Jose to Stop Runoff Pollution to the Bay

Today Baykeeper sent the City of San Jose a notice that we intend to sue the city for failing to keep trash, fecal bacteria, and other pollution from washing into major creeks and tributaries to San...

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Calling for Action on California’s Drought

A coalition of 27 environmental, fishing, and public policy groups, including Baykeeper, have released Wetter or Not – Actions to Ease the Current Drought and Prepare for the Next, a comprehensive...

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The Ghost Fleet’s Almost Gone

The Ghost Fleet of Suisun Bay, 57 decaying military ships that poisoned the San Francisco Bay ecosystem for 40 years, is almost gone. Baykeeper legal action led to a federal government cleanup and...

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25th Anniversary Flash from the Past: Responding to the Cosco Busan Oil Spill

In November 2007, the enormous Cosco Busan container ship hit the Bay Bridge, spilling 53,000 gallons of oily fuel into the Bay. The first reported estimate of the spill was only 140 gallons, and the...

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Pelicans of San Francisco Bay

Soaring and gliding gracefully over the water, pelicans are a familiar sight around San Francisco Bay. Two types of pelicans live here, the California brown pelican and the American white pelican....

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Major Bulk Shipping Terminal Agrees to Stop Toxic Contamination of the Bay

In a critical win for stopping toxic industrial pollution in San Francisco Bay, Baykeeper has secured an agreement with the Levin-Richmond Terminal Corporation to install an excellent set of controls...

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No on Prop 1 – California Water Bond

Baykeeper recommends a No vote on Proposition 1, the Water Bond on the statewide November ballot. Officially titled the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, Prop 1 is a...

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Rosé for the Bay—A Wine in Support of Baykeeper

Every year, Obsidian Wine Co. crafts a special pinot noir rosé in honor of San Francisco Bay—Rosé for the Bay. The grapes are fittingly grown in a foggy wetland location of Obsidian’s vineyard and...

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Board of Supervisors Passes Resolution Urging Port of San Francisco to Restrict Fossil Fuels

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Board of Supervisors yesterday passed a resolution supporting and encouraging the Department of the Environment and the Port of San Francisco in developing a policy to bar the...

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