If news were baseball, BART would have been declared out this morning. Three very different news stories illustrated problems that the transit agency appears to have brought on themselves: A judgement against them for hazardous materials violations, an already-derided idea to get corporate sponsorships for stations, and a worker who allegedly refused to help a woman who says she was sexually battered on one of their platforms.

Let's start with the judgement: According to the Chron, BART is on the hook for $1.275 million after Alameda, Contra Costa and San Mateo counties filed a lawsuit alleging that "more than 30 BART facilities lacked emergency response plans for spills of large quantities of diesel, petroleum, battery acid and fire-extinguishing chemicals."

According to Bay City News, the suit also claimed that "BART violated its environmental obligations related to aboveground and underground storage of petroleum and its hazardous waste," and alleged that the transit agency stored large quantities of hazardous materials "in close proximity to areas accessed by BART commuters."

“We certainly learned our lesson,” BART spokesman Jim Allison told KQED in an interview following the settlement announcement. He admits that BART was not in compliance with regulations, but says that “It’s important to note that the public and the environment were not endangered by this noncompliance...But it was a serious issue, nonetheless, and BART has taken steps to correct it.”

Under the settlement, BART will pay $675,000 in civil penalties, $300,000 to reimburse the cost of the investigations, and 300,000 toward funding two additional environmental compliance positions for the next two years. The money for these payouts will come from BART's general fund.

According to a BART rider, when the transit agency wasn't failing to train staff to manage hazardous materials risks, it was was failing to train them regarding sexual battery reports. CBS 5 brings to light the Facebook post of a woman who was attacked in BART's MacArthur station, but had her report brushed off by the station agent.

BART spokesperson Alicia Trott says the man you see in the photos below allegedly followed his victim to a secluded area of the MacArthur platform, where he molested the woman before following her again on and off the train at around 9 p.m. Saturday.

The victim "reported the incident to a station agent who told her 'it wasn’t worth calling the cops and sent me on my way,'" according to CBS 5.

After the account and photos received attention from fellow Facebook users, the victim was contacted by a BART police officer, “who took this much more seriously than the Station Agent. She was compassionate, took down my report in its entirety, and asked me to email her the pictures.” Anyone who recognizes the man is asked to call BART police at (510)464-7000.

And finally, we come to the possibility that BART stations might get corporate sponsors, like sports arenas, I guess? The Ex reports that last week BART's Board of Directors "discussed possible station sponsorships to raise revenue" at a workshop discussion of “Potential Fare Programs under Study.”

Though "no revenue strategies were approved at the workshop," the Ex reports, the idea might end up in front of the Board later this year, BART Board Director Rebecca Saltzman says. She's not psyched, as “I have concerns about station sponsorships, both about companies that might purchase sponsorships and about confusing riders.”

“I have seen this [proposal] come and go,” local political veteran and new BART Board Director Bevan Dufty told the Ex. “But I don’t think there’s a real appetite for it.” Oh, Bevan. with all due respect, this is 2017, and it's clear that when you're predicting appetites, all bets are utterly off.