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Rainy-Season Tips to Protect San Francisco Bay from Pollution
The rainy season brings vital freshwater to our lakes, creeks, and streams, and it’s also the time for migrating winter birds who stop over in the Bay. Unfortunately, the rainy season also brings...
Construction Debris Recycler to Keep Polluted Runoff Out of Bay
Instead of running off into San Francisco Bay, contaminated storm water from Premier Recycle in San Jose will be pumped to storage containers and reused onsite. This new victory in Baykeeper’s Bay-...
Union City Pipe Factory Agrees to Protect Bay from Toxic Runoff
In response to Baykeeper’s lawsuit, U.S. Pipe and Foundry recently agreed to stop polluted storm water from leaving its Union City pipe manufacturing facility. Runoff containing heavy metals and...
Polluting Abandoned Boats Being Removed from Oakland Estuary
This week the federal Environmental Protection Agency raised an abandoned and sunken tugboat from the floor of the Oakland Estuary, as part of a two-month operation to remove abandoned boats from the...
Sunnyvale Waste Facility Agrees to Keep Polluted Runoff Out of the Bay
In the latest legal victory for Baykeeper’s Bay-Safe Industry Campaign, the city of Sunnyvale recently agreed to install controls to protect San Francisco Bay from polluted runoff from its waste...
Western Grebes Arriving at Their Seasonal San Francisco Bay Home
On autumn nights, flocks of Western Grebes end their migration by alighting on San Francisco Bay, their seasonal home. These strikingly beautiful birds are about two and half feet long, black on top...
Opposing Oil Export Facilities on the Bay’s Shore
Baykeeper is working to halt plans by the oil industry for a major expansion of oil refineries on San Francisco Bay in order to process millions of barrels of oil for export to other states and...
Santa Clara Steel Fabricator Will Curb Pollution of Bay
As a result of Baykeeper’s lawsuit, SOS Steel Company, Inc. last week agreed to clean up its pollution of San Francisco Bay. Baykeeper sued the Santa Clara steel fabricator after finding that rainy-...
Baykeeper Earns Charity Navigator's Top Rating for 3rd Time
For the third year in a row, Charity Navigator, the nation’s leading evaluator of nonprofit organizations’ financial performance, has awarded San Francisco Baykeeper its top 4-star rating for our...
Only 13 of Original 57 Ghost Fleet Ships Left to Clean Up
By Sejal Choksi The cleanup of the Ghost Fleet—57 decaying military ships that poisoned the San Francisco Bay ecosystem for 40 years—is now two years ahead of schedule, with only 13 ships left to...
Join Baykeeper for California Coastal Cleanup Day On September 21!
Baykeeper is hosting a beach cleanup at India Basin Shoreline Park on Saturday, September 21, 9 AM to Noon, to target the serious marine debris problem that disproportionately affects San Francisco’s...
Take Action for Better Controls on Industrial Runoff Pollution
(Note: This Action Alert closed on September 19, 2013.) The state's top water management agency is considering a new permit governing industrial runoff pollution that largely maintains the status quo...