SF News SF’s Water Pollution Lawsuit Against the EPA Is Heading to the US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court is wading into the mess of San Francisco’s wastewater and sewage treatment controversy, and will take the case in which SF sued the EPA over how much sewage they can allow into the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Air Quality District Says Benicia Refinery Has Been Emitting Hazardous Chemicals for 15 Years A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years.
SF News Scientists Find Remote Pacific Island Covered In 38 Million Pieces Of Trash Thanks to the South Pacific gyre and humanity's endless supply of discarded plastic, there is an island in the Pacific that has become a particular magnet for waste which a team of scientists
SF News As Bay Turns Brown With Sediment, Some Environmentalists (And Swimmers) Fear Pollution Oh #SFBay, you so dirty! ❤ this news! San Francisco Bay turns brown after nonstop storms https://t.co/9U26n7ACLR via @SFGate @bayareamoms— Erica Maharg (@BackwardGraham) February 15, 2017 Anne Sasaki of San Francisco
SF News Oakland Takes On Monsanto In Billion Dollar PCB Pollutant Case For 50 years, St. Louis-based chemical company Monsanto contaminated the San Francisco Bay with its production of the highly toxic chemical polychlorinated biphenyl, a.k.a. PCBs. The company continued manufacturing the chemical
SF News Fishermen Sue PG&E Over Chemical Contamination Near Wharf by Eric Wuestewald On Tuesday, fifty fisherman and a single Marina property owner filed a formal complaint against PG&E claiming their former refineries had poured some truly nasty stuff into the
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 Today Declared First 'Spare The Air' Day Of Winter Season Don't even think about lighting a fire in that fireplace tonight! It's the first Spare the Air day of the winter season today, as announced by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
SF News Shell Gas Promotion Leads to Awkward Spare the Air Day Fuel Giveaway Yesterday while most of us were sweating it out on public transit on a particularly warm Spare the Air day, a San Francisco Shell gas station was giving away full tanks of gas
SF News Air District Issues 'Spare The Air' Alert For Wednesday The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued the a Spare the Air Smog Alert for tomorrow, Wednesday, September 7. While no free-transit magic will happen tomorrow -- or, quite possibly, ever
SF News Cycling On City Streets Linked to Heart Risks Just what we've always expected, driving in a 2011 BMW X5 is safer and healthier than riding your bike along city streets. According to the Chronicle, "A new study published in the journal
SF News Container Goes Plop Into Oakland Estuary The Coast Guard is currently broadcasting warnings and preventing some vessels from entering the Oakland estuary until a container that fell off a ship Saturday night can be located underwater. The container got
SF News US & 4 Others Countries Reach Climate Agreement CBS reports: "President Barack Obama said the United States, China and several other countries reached a 'unprecedented breakthrough' Friday to curb greenhouse gas emissions -- including a mechanism to verify compliance -- after
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 Vile Weather Prompts 'Spare the Air' Day Noting that today's warm weather throughout most of the Bay Area is simply unbearable, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared today a Spare the Air Day. "Hot temperatures and light
SF News Mirant Power Plant To Close By End Of 2010 Ciy Attorney Dennis Herrera just announced a agreement with Mirant to close the Potrero power plant by 2010, one of the city's last remaining large power plants. According to our sources, Mirant will
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 Air Quality Report: Bay Area Mimics Los Angeles As particulate matter from the 850 wildfires has ruined our famously crisp and sought-after air in the Bay Area. On the plus side, though, it has made for some gorgeous sunsets.
misc Screw the Earth, Win $500 In Gas Money Perfect for celebrating Earth Day, Citizen Sugar is offering one lucky winner $500 in gas relief. ("Gas relief." Har.) All you have to do is register and take a brief quiz (e.g.
SF News Spare the Air Tonight, Folks Also, there's no free transit during winter/fall Spare the Air days. Bummer.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: A San Francisco Shooting Star The photo at left shows Sutro Tower below a meteor that caused the crowd at Twin peaks to gasp just before midnight. We saw about ten meteors ourselves in the very favourable conditions.
misc Hey! It's Your Top 5 Comments of the Week! For those of you that haven't seen the Top 5 feature before, this is where we recognize you guys for adding to -- or, in many cases, spawning -- the discussion on SFist's
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
SF News Surprise: Parking Garage Company Wants to Build LA-Style Garages in SF More room for cars means less room to house people -- and less room for housing means rent's going to get even higher. Not to mention: more cars means more traffic; slower Muni;
