<![CDATA[environmenrt - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]>https://sfist.com/https://sfist.com/favicon.pngenvironmenrt - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sportshttps://sfist.com/Ghost 2.12Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:06:14 GMT60<![CDATA[E.P.A. Finally To Enact Smog Protections Bush Wouldn't Allow]]>https://sfist.com/2010/01/07/epa_finally_to_enact_smog_protectio/5c24309044ad066cdcf91865Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:45:45 GMTThe Environmental Protection Agency today announced that they would be enacting tougher smog restrictions nationwide, which are expected to cost industries tens of billions of dollars to comply with. You may recall that the EPA tried to do this under Dubya, but was thwarted because of his quest to destroy the planet. The new rules are not likely to affect California, which has been at the forefront of de-smogging protections for a while. But as ABC News reports, counties in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Minnesota are all likely to feel the pain of compliance.

]]><![CDATA[TransAmerica Pyramid Gets Green Building Certification]]>LEED Gold certification for being one of the greenest bui...]]>https://sfist.com/2009/12/14/transamerica_pyramid_gets_green_bui/5c24270b44ad066cdcf43456Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:30:12 GMT

On Friday, Mayor Newsom announced that the TransAmerica Pyramid had achieved LEED Gold certification for being one of the greenest buildings in the nation, thereby boosting San Francisco ahead of Los Angeles or New York as home to the greatest number of green buildings.

As Inhabitat gushes, large-scale retrofits in the TransAmerica building and elsewhere, in addition to stringent guidelines for new construction, have increased the amount of LEED-certified square footage in SF five-fold in the past year.

Yay, us!

]]><![CDATA[Quote du Jour: Shut It, Trudie Styler]]>Friends where Pheobe uses Ross' kid to try to get Sting tickets has "personally" invited 6,000 Bay Area Chevron employees to 5c242f9244ad066cdcf89f2bFri, 25 Sep 2009 13:25:35 GMT

Oh geez. That woman who was in that episode of Friends where Pheobe uses Ross' kid to try to get Sting tickets has "personally" invited 6,000 Bay Area Chevron employees to Crude, some sort of documentary about Ecuadorian rainforests, or oil, or eco-whatever.

"You may know me as Sting’s wife [ugh], and you may know of my work for the environment and human rights [really?]. You may also have heard my name mentioned as one of the celebrities [really??] speaking out in support of the 30,000 Ecuadorean citizens who are pursuing Chevron to clean up the pollution the company left behind in their homeland..."

Anyway, if you want to check out Crude, watch the trailer here, get showtimes here.

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