SF News Delays Expected All Day After Sticky Spill Borks Friday Morning Bay Bridge Commute All lanes blocked wb SF/Oak Bay Bridge due to large paint spill. Vehicles can exit at Fremont Street. CHP on scene. pic.twitter.com/a57OYZq8uh— Christopher Sherry (@CHPChrisSherry) December 18, 2015 The
SF News San Jose emergency room shut down after chemical spill A Hazmat team has closed San Jose Valley Medical Center's emergency room after an unknown chemical exposure. At least 37 employees, 47 patients were given Silkwood scrubdowns. The toxic mess, it seems, came
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 UPDATE: Gas Spills Into SF Bay A "significant amount" of spilled into the San Francisco Bay after a tugboat collided with a refinery pipeline Tuesday night at Tesoro Petroleum's Golden Eagle Refinery in Martinez. Reports claim that "it wasn't
SF News Richmond Hazardous Toluene Spill Update Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water: Initial reports indicated that a very minimal amount of the substance, now confirmed to be Toluene, was able to reach
SF News Hazardous Spill In Richmond Prompts Shelter-In-Place Advisory After someone supposedly stole brass fittings from a chemical company, toluenediamine, a flammable substance that causes irritation by inhalation, was released. Oops. Contra Costa County authorities have asked residents of over 1,500
SF News Oh Shit: Prisoner Poop Fills the Bay According to Marin County officials, about "1,500 gallons of raw sewage" was dumped into the San Francisco Bay today near Point San Quentin. Grody. According to the Gate: Deartment of Corrections officials
SF News Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.
SF News Zoinks: Tanker Truck Accident Shuts Down 101 in Redwood City Due to a gasoline tanker truck accident -- which resulted in an eco-unfriendly dousing of over "26 gallons" (?) of gasoline, or so said CBS 5's Judge Judy breaking-news interruption -- all northbound and
SF News Another Spill Goes Down the Drain. Or Did it? Although ABC 7's Cheryl Jennings -- who we find kicky and whimsical -- told us that a cleaning solvent spilled into the bay this morning, we're getting conflicting reports as to whether or
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 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 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