SF News Oil Companies Pushing State Ballot Measure to Drill Next to Schools, Homes California passed a law prohibiting oil companies from drilling within two-thirds of a mile of schools, homes, and hospitals. Big Oil fought back, and now the issue is heading to your November 2024 ballot.
SF News To Ward Off Evil Spirits, Man Slathers Vegetable Oil On Headstones Spirits haunting the Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park in Hayward got a little Wessonality last week after a man covered an estimated 150 headstones with vegetable oil. Deepak Sandhar Singh of Hayward
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shut Up, Little Man! Tenderloin Dweller Attacks Roommate With Boiling Oil A spat over a kitchen light turned into a harrowing boiling-oil attack Tuesday morning between two San Francisco roommates living in the Tenderloin. "The victim told police he was in the kitchen reading
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 Newsom Drowns Baby Seals In BP Oil, Twirls Moustache, Cackles Although Newsom touts an excessively green platform -- take, for example, his appointment of a Greening Director, the single most bullshit-heavy job title since Social Media Consultant -- Matier & Ross report that
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 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 Cosco Busan Operating Company Indicted Remember when that big boat rammed into the Bay Bridge? And birds died? Fish went belly-up? And we all rightfully freaked out? And certain parties were justly charged in the accident? Well, the
SF News Mystery Oil Closes Alameda Beach Crown State Memorial Beach Park in Alameda closed down after "quarter-sized tar balls and an oil sheen" were found along the shoreline, stretching about half-mile long. No one knows yet where the oil
SF News Do I Hear $6?: Gallon of Gas Reaches New Heights We're a tenth of a penny away from $5 a gallon for REGULAR gas, y'all. Very exciting. In related news, things are getting heated in SoCal. At an Orange County Costco, a La
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
SF News Barge Hits Richmond-San Rafael Bridge According to the Coast Guard, "a barge has hit the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge" around 6 p.m. this evening. Yikes! The barge, reportedly carrying 63,000 barrels of heavy black oil, hit the
SF News Your Oil Spill Update: Pelosi! Like the bad ass she is, occasional San Francisco resident and current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has written to the "Homeland Security Department's inspector general requesting an investigation of preparation for and response
SF News Gavin Newsom: Chubby Chaser Gavin wants your fat. According to Renewable Energy Access, yesterday our dear Mayor implemented a new program that will collect fats, oil, and grease from the city restaurants free of charge.Why? So
SF News Cosco Busan Vessel "Arrested" Audet & Partners, LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of commercial fishers and crab-based (?) businesses in San Francisco on November 20. Today on their site they claim the following, "Breaking News:
SF News Your Cosco Bucan Oil Spill Roundup What started out yesterday morning as a PG-13, innocent little fender bender has now turned into our very own R-rated environmental disaster. Smashing. Here's a summary of today's oil spill-related chaos, followed by
SF News Oil Spill Damage Is, Well, Damaging Oh man, are you kidding? This is terrible. Not to get all tugging-the-heart strings today, but this spill is much worse than initially reported yesterday. This oil covered bird above was found at
SF News Photos: Cosco Busan Oil and Water Don't Mix But, and we hate to admit it, they sure do look pretty together. (The image above has been set as our desktop background!) But as attractive as oil and water looks on rain-soaked
