SF News Erin Brockovich Is Helping Moss Landing Residents With Battery Plant Fire Lawsuit There are new developments surrounding the fire that raged at the Moss Landing Battery Plant in January and reignited in February, including a community survey, warnings from the EPA about potential flare-ups, Erin Brockovich helping residents in a lawsuit, and new legislation.
SF News Supreme Court Rules In Favor of San Francisco In EPA Lawsuit Over Sewer Discharge San Francisco won out and had some strange bedfellows supporting it in a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court last year about the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate ocean water standards.
SF News San Francisco Has Its Day at the Supreme Court In EPA Case, Conservative Justices Seem to Side With City The City of San Francisco finds itself in an odd position arguing a case before the Supreme Court that seeks to push back on the way the Environmental Protection Agency enforces the Clean Water Act.
SF News Feds and State Both Sue SF, Claiming the City Lets Sewage Spill Into the Ocean and the Bay The EPA, state Attorney General, and SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board just dropped a combined lawsuit onto the City of San Francisco, claiming the city has allowed “more than 1.8 billion gallons of untreated sewage” to flow each year into the Bay and Pacific Ocean
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Runs to Fire-Charred Woods to Make Video Response to Supreme Court's EPA Decision In just a week's time, the conservative-led Supreme Court — more the Alito Court than the Roberts Court at this point — has made itself Enemy Number One of the Democratic Party, and of women, LGBTQ people, climate activists, and liberals generally.
SF News Trump's EPA Chief Pens Letter To Newsom About Homeless Poop Affecting Water Quality Following through on President Trump's promise to his base to call California to task for its homeless problem, recently appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, sent a letter to Governor Newsom today.
SF News SF Air Quality Improves As Smoke From NorCal Fires Abates (Somewhat) While San Francisco still smells of smoke and is coated with ash, the situation appears to have improved Wednesday, with air quality reportedly at a less hazardous level today. As previously reported, residents
SF News The 10 Dirtiest Beaches In The Bay Nine percent of California's beaches were unsafe for swimming at some point last year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)'s nationwide report "Testing the Waters 2014." That's one percent better
SF News Do Not Freak Out Over This Radiation Plume from Japan Moving Towards California, Say Officials It is a scientific fact: The plume of radiation generated from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan is moving towards the U.S. West Coast. That plume is expected to reach California by
SF News EPA to Officially Declare Greenhouse Gases Threat to Human Health Treehugger informed us of the breaking news that the EPA will be moving forward with plans to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are harmful to our health and to
misc Bush to California: Choke On It The reason given is that in lieu of the recent energy bill, there's no need to have each state create their own rules, even if their rules are better than the Federal Government's.
