BAYKEEPER IN THE NEWS
A Selected Roundup of News Stories
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Baykeeper in the News

The latest media coverage featuring Baykeeper's work defending the Bay and holding polluters accountable. For press inquiries, click here

Flow Deal: Peace Treaty or Trojan Horse?

Estuary News

Promising up to 825,000 acre-feet a year of new water to protect endangered fish and thousands of acres of habitat improvements, the Newsom administration and others hailed the March announcement of...

Clean Water Advocates File SCOTUS Brief To Defend Clean Water Act Protection For Waters Of Significant National Importance

Markets Herald

Waterkeeper Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper, Bayou City Waterkeeper, and 47 additional Waterkeeper groups from across the country filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme...

Environmentalists, Lawmakers Stand Behind EPA on Sackett Case Before Supreme Court

Progressive Farmer

LINCOLN, NE—The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 3 in a Clean Water Act case that could have a broad effect on which waters are considered jurisdictional.

Rising Seas Could Bring Toxic Chemicals Flooding into San Francisco's Bayview Neighborhood

KQED

The first installment of Ezra David Romero's series "Sacrifice Zones." 

Deal resolves lawsuits over Bay Area coal exports, but future of Utah’s coal industry remains in doubt

The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s fight with a Bay Area city over coal exports was resolved last month with a federal judge’s signature on a settlement that halts coal shipments through Richmond, Calif. by the end of 2026....

Opinion: Inadequate water agency rules won’t protect the Bay

Mercury News

A governmental agency made a decision May 11 that will affect everyone who lives in the Bay Area, especially those who depend on the San Francisco Bay and our creeks for recreation and livelihood....

Benicia port fire likely caused by mechanical issue

Vallejo Sun

BENICIA – A fire at the Port of Benicia in April was likely caused by heat from a mechanical issue on a conveyer system that ignited petroleum coke, which is produced at the Valero Benicia refinery...

As Bay Area faces prolonged drought, recycling and desalination are the only two real options

San Francisco Examiner

Despite being surrounded by water, Bay Area residents are routinely told during dry years to take shorter showers, let lawns brown and slow the rush of water from their taps. But as climate change...

22 Fun Things to Do This Week

7x7

Get yourself over to Hog Island Oyster Co. in Marshall for a daytime rosé pairing by Obsidian Wine Co. Since the event will raise funds for San Francisco Baykeeper in support of clean water, it's a...

Bay Planners Highlight Another Missing Element in California Environmental Law

Bay Nature Magazine

The Bay Area is often associated with two things – the beauty of its natural landscape, and the skyrocketing costs of living in it. Of late those have been seen as being in tension. Should the ...

The struggle for clean air and water in Benicia

Peninsula Press

Environmental watchdog group Baykeeper filed a lawsuit in federal court against Amports, which owns the Port of Benicia, and Valero for allegedly mishandling petroleum coke, a refinery product that...

County contractor with Chevron ties has yet to investigate refinery’s 2021 diesel leak

Richmond Confidential

Fifteen months after about 800 gallons of diesel spilled into San Francisco Bay from a leaking pipe at the Richmond Chevron Refinery, the public is still waiting for a promised investigation by...

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