SF News Chevron Spills 600 Gallons of Fuel Into SF Bay; Cleanup and Damage Assessment Underway The Chevron refinery in Richmond had some sort of rupture or accident on Tuesday afternoon at a wharf where fuel tankers dock that leaked around 600 gallons of "a petroleum-water mixture" into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Vallejo Residents Hospitalized Following Mysterious Odor And 'Sheen' On San Pablo Bay Residents of Vallejo were ordered to shelter in place overnight Tuesday as a mysterious odor sickened and hospitalized an unknown number of people. This was shortly before a "sheen" was spotted on the
SF News Fuel Spill And Missing Captain After Fishing Boat Runs Aground Near Cliff House A fishing boat ran aground off Ocean Beach this morning, leaking fuel, scattering debris, and leaving at least one man in jeopardy. According to SF Gate, the Paloma of Santa Cruz, a 38-foot
SF News Fishermen Awarded $6M For Cosco Busan Spill Around 120 local fishermen will split $3.65 of a $6 million award in damages won though a class action lawsuit against the parties at fault for the horrific 2007 Cosco Busan oil
SF News Ship Shows Up Beneath Sand at Ocean Beach, Mysterious Tar Balls Showing Up In Marin Winter weather exposes some old stuff at the coasts, and some mysterious tar balls, hundreds of them, appearing on beaches in Marin -- with a large number on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes.
SF News UPDATED: Another Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico There was an explosion this morning on the Vermilion Oil Rig 380, 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast, west of the site of the Deep Water Horizon blast.
SF News Whoa: Voracious Oil-Eating Bacteria Swiftly Cleaning Up Gulf Spill So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now
SF News Oil Stops Spewing Into Gulf for First Time Since April BP successfully stopped the gushing oil well from gushing just now, choking off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. About goddamn time, people. This
Arts & Entertainment Be Part of the "Slash Oil" Formation at Ocean Beach on Saturday Brad Newsham, writer, cab driver, and organizer of the "Impeach" message at Ocean Beach from a few years back, is organizing a "Slash Oil" event that will take place on Saturday at 10
SF News Zennie Explores Oil Eating Bacteria Citizen journalist and onetime e-friend of SFist, Zennie Abraham (we hope he's forgiven us for that Oscars incident, but we digress), was taking a break from World Cup mania and walking down the
SF News I'm 'Deeply Sorry,' Says BP CEO BP CEO Tony Hayward is in the hot seat this morning, having to answer a series of questions from Republican and Democrat lawmakers. With a soothing British accent, Hayward told the House investigations
SF News San Francisco Helps With BP Oil Spill While Karl Rove calls it Obama's Katrina, more reasonable minds are actually doing something about the hellacious BP oil spill. Take, for example, San Francisco and more than 180 California-based Coast Guard personnel
SF News National Protest Tomorrow, Outrage Over BP Oil Spill Citizens across the country are taking to the streets tomorrow night with a Critical Mass style procession entitled the "Krewe of Dead Pelicans." The protest will serve as a voice for the country's
SF News Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Bigger Than Bay Area The Deepwater Horizon spill is a "a massive ongoing oil spill stemming from a sea floor oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico that started with a suspicious oil well blowout on April
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Discusses Oil Spill on <em>60 Minutes</em> UC Berkeley professor Dr. Robert Bea is an expert in off-shore oil rig accidents, and he was asked by the White House last week to analyze the BP disaster in the Gulf. As
misc Schwarzenegger Stops Offshore Oil Project After Massive Oil Spill Sacramento Bee reports that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "withdrew his support Monday for a controversial new offshore oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast in the wake of a massive oil spill in
SF News Go Snowy Plovers! According to a new study, the threatened species of small, white, dune-dwelling birds known as snowy plovers were especially lucky in surviving the major oil spill by the Cosco Busan in San Francisco
SF News Oil Spills Into SF Bay While transferring oil from a barge to an oil tanker a little after 6:30 a.m. this morning, oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay this morning, leaving a big sheen. (Ugh.
SF News 2007 Oil Spill Culprit Faces Sentencing You may recall that container ship, the Cosco Busan, that plowed into one of the Bay Bridge supports back in November '07 and dumped 53,000 gallons of oil into the Bay, and
SF News Oil Spill Response Time Shortened The California State Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday "that lowers the allowable response time to an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay from from six hours to two hours." Penned by
SF News Pilot of the Cosco Busan Charged In Federal Court Although the National Transportation Safety Board has yet to release its report on the causes of last year's crash, today the pilot of the Cosco Busan, John Joseph Cota of Petaluma, was charged
misc SFist Photo: Where Have All the Salmon Gone? Per the rangers at Muir Woods, one Coho made it up Redwood Creek this month. Another Coho tried, but was intercepted and eaten by a hungry river otter. Oh well. Godspeed endangered fishies.
misc AP Report: Cosco Busan Pilot on Prescription Drugs During Accident? A lot is going on with the aftermath of our big oil spill. An update is here.
misc Cosco Busan Update: Hearing for Pilot Skedded for April 2. The Incident Specific Preparedness Review team is finally done with its 112-page report regarding the first two weeks of response after the accident. You'll get a chance to read it before Super
misc Larkspur Students Help Out With Oil Spill Cleanup Via Makeovers Oh, those crazy hot-tubbing, wife-swapping, Al Qaeda-loving Marin County folk. It seems that now they're scalping their own children in an effort to tidy up the remaining Cosco Busan oil spill disaster. Students
