Warming Bay Area temperatures prompt Spare the Air alert for Tuesday, Wednesday
A warming trend forecast for the Bay Area this week prompted air district officials to issue a Spare the Air alert for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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A warming trend forecast for the Bay Area this week prompted air district officials to issue a Spare the Air alert for Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended Friday's air quality advisory through Saturday.
A bakery on the Peninsula will pay more than $160,000 to settle air quality violations, officials said Wednesday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is extending an air quality advisory for the region into Thursday due to wildfire smoke, particularly from the Pedro Fire in Mariposa and Tuolumne counties.
Wildfire smoke prompted the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to issue an air quality advisory for Friday and Saturday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended a Spare the Air Alert through Wednesday as increased levels of smog pollution will continue to pose respiratory risk across the region.
Tesla has been ordered to correct ongoing air quality violations at its electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Fremont, regulators said Tuesday.
An air quality advisory for the Bay Area is being extended, as the Sites Fire continues to burn in Colusa County Wednesday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is offering people cash for their old, smoggy cars.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Monday announced a new subscription service that can notify residents via text and email of incidents impacting county-level and regional air quality.
Crews have mostly extinguished a fire at a metal recycling plant in Redwood City Wednesday that sent up a large plume of smoke over the Peninsula.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has accused Tesla's Fremont plant of potentially emitting thousands of tons of illegal air pollutants in recent years and is seeking an order to force the company to take measures to stop.
A newly released report by the American Lung Association reveals that the state of California -- and the Bay Area -- has some of the worst air quality in the entire country.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said Thursday it fined the city of Berkeley $130,000 for air quality violations at its landfill site at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley from 2019 to 2022.
A major settlement aimed at reducing the impact of East Bay refineries on the surrounding community is leaving some people living nearby unconvinced that it will result in lasting change.
The operator of a shuttered landfill in Contra Costa County has been fined more than $150,000 for failing to properly contain gases from the facility, officials announced Monday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is investigating complaints after a flaring incident at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond on New Year's Eve.
Huddling around a cozy fireplace during the holidays may be a pleasurable experience, but the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is strongly discouraging it over the New Year's weekend in an effort to keep air quality healthy.
Health officials in Contra Costa County on Tuesday made an unannounced visit to a Martinez refinery that has been under scrutiny following multiple flaring incidents and hazardous materials releases.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued four notices of violation to the Martinez Refining Company over a flaring event on Sunday afternoon that MRC initially said was just a grass fire.
A Spare the Air alert banning the burning of wood in the Bay Area has been extended through Sunday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued the first winter Spare the Air alert of the season for Friday, banning the burning of wood or other solid fuel in the region.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Wednesday it released a draft plan to reduce emissions for the Richmond-North Richmond-San Pablo area of Contra Costa County.
The City of Richmond called a special council meeting on Tuesday night to discuss some of the odor issues residents have complained about since last week.
The agencies with various environmental and legal complaints against Martinez Refining Company are teaming up to seek a common penalty against the refinery for issues going back to last year's Thanksgiving weekend release.
