Topic: San Francisco Bay
After years of dispute and delay, the federal government on Wednesday said it would remove a decaying armada from the San Francisco Bay estuary that has shed toxic substances into the water for decades. The U.S. Maritime Administration, or MARAD, settled a lawsuit and ...
Federal environmental regulators want to fine the Municipal Transit Authority for spilling thousands of gallons of diesel fuel into the San Francisco Bay. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal judge to order the local agency to pay a $250,000 fine for ...
Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay. And those were just the big spills the public ...
