Housing in all the Wrong Places

Oct 24, 2023

The Bay Area is experiencing a desperate housing crisis. But instead of building safe, dense housing on infill sites, as many experts recommend, yet another city is attempting to build on a toxic flood-zone.

The proposed “Mowry Village” site in Newark lies in a designated FEMA floodplain with a high risk of liquefaction on a known toxic site containing heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and volatile organic compounds. There could hardly be a worse place for people to live.

California Has New Laws: What They Mean for the Bay

Oct 24, 2023

The 2023 legislative session has drawn to a close, and a number of bills are now law.

Here are a few legislative highlights that Baykeeper supported:

Living the Dream

Oct 6, 2023
Sejal Choksi-Chugh
by Sejal Choksi-Chugh

When I was little and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my immediate answer was “a dancer!” I loved to dance and took ballet, jazz, tap, and modern dance classes for many years, aspiring to one day dance backup for Janet Jackson. And even though I danced through college—adding swing and salsa to my repertoire—I realized that was one dream that wouldn’t come true. 

Groups Urge EPA to Regulate Coal Pollution from Uncovered Rail Cars

Sep 26, 2023

Today SF Baykeeper, Sierra Club, Public Justice, and several other environmental and public health organizations filed a petition for rulemaking with the EPA, calling upon the agency to stop harmful coal pollution from open-top trains carrying coal by requiring coal train operators to obtain a permit for their water pollution.

New Dams? Bad Idea

Sep 21, 2023

As multiple California fish species teeter on the brink of extinction, and both commercial and recreational fisheries face imminent collapse, a new project threatens to push them over the edge.

The proposed Sites dams project—a series of diversions and dams in the Sacramento Valley—would divert more water from the Sacramento River, reducing fresh water flowing to San Francisco Bay.

Just Plain Lucky

Aug 31, 2023
Sejal Choksi-Chugh
by Sejal Choksi-Chugh

As the plane rose into the sky, I looked out my window eagerly anticipating the beautiful sparkling Bay views. But instead, the water was murky and reddish-brown.

It was the end of July, and Baykeeper had just received the summer's first hotline reports of a suspected algae bloom along the East Bay shoreline. But flying out of SFO, I could also see discolored water along the Bay's western shore.

Grammy-nominated RyanNicole Releases “Small but Mighty,” in Collaboration With Hip Hop for Change and SF Baykeeper

Aug 24, 2023

Oakland, CA—The music video release of Grammy-nominated artist RyanNicole’s “Small but Mighty” is the result of an innovative collaboration between two Bay Area nonprofits. SF Baykeeper, the Oakland-based non-profit legal watchdog organization that confronts corporate polluters, and the Oakland-based social justice–infused arts education org Hip Hop for Change, Inc (HH4C).

New Chevron Oil Spill Report Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test

Aug 17, 2023

In early 2021, Richmond residents called Baykeeper’s pollution hotline to report a strange sheen on the Bay and a noxious smell in the air. Turns out, they had discovered an oil spill at Chevron’s loading dock. Unfortunately, Chevron itself was unaware that its oil was polluting the Bay until locals reported it.

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