Mountain View Restaurants Join 'Strawless September' Campaign
With plastic straws becoming a high-profile threat to the environment as millions pollute our oceans, one Bay Area city is taking on the big commitment to have a "Strawless September."
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With plastic straws becoming a high-profile threat to the environment as millions pollute our oceans, one Bay Area city is taking on the big commitment to have a "Strawless September."
California and 14 other states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its decision to suspend an Obama-era rule aimed at limiting pollution from trucks.
Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what's found in major cities, according to a study released Wednesday.
Wildlife conservationists in Alabama are expressing outrage after the body of an endangered type of sea turtle washed ashore with a beach chair wrapped around its neck.
The Bay Area has some of the most-bacteria ridden beaches in California, according to an annual report released Thursday.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors was preparing to grill executives from Tetra Tech, the firm accused of falsifying results from the $1 billion radiation cleanup at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, at a hearing Monday.
Two former supervisors who oversaw the testing of radiation contaminated soil at the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard have pleaded guilty to falsifying reports and have each been sentenced to eight months in prison.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined East Bay cities and municipal districts almost $400,000 for allowing untreated sewage to enter the Bay.
The waiver has allowed California to steer the rest of nation toward tougher limits on car and truck emissions that pollute the air and change the climate.
It's no secret the Bay Area has a trash problem, but when it rains the trash pours into our waterways.
A second judge has told the Trump administration it can't keep stalling clean-air rules for oil and gas production on federal lands.
A lawsuit charges that Santos Engineering is intentionally blowing dust from construction debris into a West Oakland neighborhood, allowing contaminated water to flow into the city's storm water system.
Several popular Monterey County beaches were closed Sunday after as much as 4.9 million gallons of sewage spilled into Monterey Bay from a wastewater treatment plant before it was stopped.
One Christmas tradition has been extinguished by Bay Area air quality control officials.
Nearly a dozen agencies in Sonoma County are working to reduce the risk of flooding and pollution of drinking water by sediment and debris in the wake of the wildfires that devastated the county earlier this month.
Schools have been closed, doctors offices and emergency rooms have filled up as smoke from the wine country fires has made it difficult to breath in the Bay Area.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Wednesday extended a health advisory and Spare the Air alert into the weekend, as wildfires in the wine country continue to rage.
Residents in a Dublin neighborhood are concerned about the safety of their drinking water after a sample test by officials last week revealed the presence of E.coli bacteria.
Nearly 20 aquariums nationwide have pledged to phase out plastic items, such as straws and bottles, in an effort to save the world's oceans.
An alarming amount of chemicals spewed into the air from Benicia's Valero refinery during two weeks of flaring that followed a power outage in May 2017.
Google is testing sensors on some its streetview cars to try and pinpoint sources of pollution. And the data is available to anyone.
There's a trash problem in Oakland that's so bad, it's polluting the San Francisco Bay. Now, Oakland may have to pay the price.
Divers Saturday checked to see whether fuel was leaking again from a barge that capsized early Friday morning in San Francisco Bay south of the Bay Bridge.
After confirming that the material had not been exposed to the environment, fire crews deemed the area safe and the evacuation order was lifted.
A new cement factory promises to bring dozens of jobs to a Bay Area community plagued by blight. But some neighbors are saying, "not so fast."
