Subject:

Environmental Issues and Protection

  • News

    August 16, 1995

    Money for Nothing

    If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2009

    A Walk in the Park

    If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2009

    Climactic Change

    If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

  • Dining

    January 7, 2009

    Baggage

    The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Pollution Absolution

    A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

  • News

    September 27, 2006

    Troublesome Pastimes

    One local busybody collects letters from serial killers. Another attacks environmentalists. Guess which one's misguided.

  • News

    June 28, 2006

    Mean People's Court

    On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2004

    Planet Pleasure

    Earth Day in S.F.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    Unnatural Gas

    "Environmentalists" make bad transit worse by insisting Muni buy alt-fuel buses

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Fallout: The Past Is Present

    The Nuclear Witnesses

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Use of Trash

    The Sanitary Fill Co.

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Tabled Salt

    Plans to buy Cargill's huge saltworks and restore them to wetlands are thwarted by a sour economy

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Ring Master; Salt in the Wound; S.F.: 237, N.Y.: 1

  • News

    December 12, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Tale of the Whale; Night Crawler: A Cure for the Common Cold

  • Calendar

    December 12, 2001

    Hold On a Minute!

    Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    The Unlikely Environmentalists

    International environmentalists claim they stopped a Mexican salt plant that endangered the gray whale. Actually, though, the Mexican government canceled the plant for reasons of its own.

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    Rural Cleansing

    Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    Running on Empty

    Detroit automakers have spent millions attempting to unplug California's effort to put electric cars on the road. And so far, Detroit's succeeding.

  • News

    May 2, 2001

    Chlorine, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Trichloroethylene, Beryllium, Nickel, PCBs ...

    Even if radioactivity were ignored, Hunters Point Shipyard would be one of the planet's most polluted properties

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    The Battle for Walpert Ridge

    A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

  • News

    August 2, 2000

    Current Events

    How development pressure and environmental law may force radical change along the seemingly idyllic but deeply troubled Russian River

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2000

    Love Your Mother

    Earth Day events take place Saturday

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    Shaky Ground

    Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  • Calendar

    March 17, 1999

    Cothran

    Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  • Calendar

    March 10, 1999

    Cothran

    Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  • News

    September 23, 1998

    Fecal Matters

    When it comes to sewers, San Francisco just can't get its shit together

  • News

    October 1, 1997

    Foul Ball

    The Giants' new stadium site is almost certainly seeping a stew of toxic chemicals into the bay. Why doesn't the government care?

  • News

    September 3, 1997

    The Sky's the Limit

    How buying and selling pollutants could help clean up the Bay Area's air

  • News

    June 19, 1996

    Looking A little Green

    Taking the Sierra Club's helm, boy wonder Adam Werbach confronts more than his own inexperience

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    State Senate Committee Moves to Allow Toxic Waste In County Dumps

    Thanks, Ma: Toxic waste from old cars is still hunky dory in California The California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee today unanimously approved a bill that would block environmental officials from preventing 700,000 tons of toxic waste from being dumped into county landfills each year. As ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Ironically, bike hater Rob Anderson advances cause of cycling in S.F.

    Thanks, Ma: Toxic waste from old cars is still hunky dory in California The California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee today unanimously approved a bill that would block environmental officials from preventing 700,000 tons of toxic waste from being dumped into county landfills each year. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Suit Alleges Environmental Protection Agency Not Doing Enough Environmental Protecting

    Smoke 'em if you got 'em...It was the Roman satirist Juvenal who pondered quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Who watches the watchmen? If we gave him the answer "The WildEarth Guardians" we don't think it'd satisfy his query (and, honestly, the man's been dead 1,800 years) -- but it wouldn't be wrong ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

    ​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Update -- S.F. Pledges $250,000 to Settle Diesel Spill Lawsuit

    ​San Francisco has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle an EPA lawsuit demanding that the city  prevent a repeat of a 2005 Muni diesel fuel spill.SF Weekly obtained a copy of the consent decree between San Francisco and U.S. officials just after posting an item about an Oct. 27 EPA lawsuit chargi ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

    ​San Francisco has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle an EPA lawsuit demanding that the city  prevent a repeat of a 2005 Muni diesel fuel spill.SF Weekly obtained a copy of the consent decree between San Francisco and U.S. officials just after posting an item about an Oct. 27 EPA lawsuit chargi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Is Toxic Waste is Good for the Environment? S.F. Official Explains Logic behind Green Business Program.

    ​This week's Matt Smith column notes that Sims Metal Management dumps into municipal landfills tens of thousands of tons of waste California Department of Toxic Substances Control scientists say is hazardous. Yet the company somehow received a San Francisco "Green Business Award." The column a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    New City Program Helps Homeowners Slash PG&E Bill

    Look! Green! Green!​But Some Consumers May Be Better Off Looking Elsewhere To Fund Green Home Improvements, Program's Architect AcknowledgesMayor Gavin Newsom this evening will hold an "Internet town hall" to tout a new program helping property owners pay for energy-saving improvements. Dubbed Gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Sierra Club Sues EPA For Not Enforcing Clean Air Act

    Trouble in paradise?​Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco, asserting the EPA did not adequately enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act.The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Report Touting Prop. 23 'Simply Nonsense' -- Stanford Prof

    Matt SmithHere's what we'll do, y'see: We'll put out crazy-assed think-tank reports, and see if people believe 'em.​The Pacific Research Institute bills itself as a think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility by advancing free-market policy solutions. But judging fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    New Bill Seeks to Curb Use of Environmental Review to Delay Worthy Projects

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Rec and Parks chief Jared Blumenfeld dumps his boat to work on green issues

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • News

    January 26, 2011

    Erosion at Ocean Beach could send sewage into the sea

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    San Francisco Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Clean Air Act

    Sparing Polluters​It's Spare the Air Day, and here is why we should refrain from air-polluting behaviors. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has joined WildEarth Guardians in a legal battle to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold more than two dozen states accountable for protec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2011

    New View for the Bayview

    Sparing Polluters​It's Spare the Air Day, and here is why we should refrain from air-polluting behaviors. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has joined WildEarth Guardians in a legal battle to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold more than two dozen states accountable for protec ... More >>

  • News

    March 30, 2011

    S.F. Feral Cats Policy Good for Cats, Terrible for Birds

    Sparing Polluters​It's Spare the Air Day, and here is why we should refrain from air-polluting behaviors. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club has joined WildEarth Guardians in a legal battle to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold more than two dozen states accountable for protec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Teens Sue Federal Government for Failing to Protect Children from Global Warming (Video)

    Put this fire out!​Typically, you expect an environmental activist to be dressed in all organic clothing, maybe even birkenstocks. Whatever it is they are wearing, you at least imagine that they are them to be adults, as in over the age of 18. But apparently, the concern over global warming stretc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Global Warming Will Submerge Ocean Beach at Little Cost to San Francisco

    CosmoPolitician via Flickr​First, the bad news: Ocean Beach will likely sink, thanks to global warming. But the good news is, it won't suck nearly as bad as it will for our neighbors down in Southern California.The reason for this is that our beach is kinda lame, according to a new study. Therefor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    EPA Orders South Bay Metal Recycler to Stop Polluting San Francisco Bay

    Perhaps not the best recyclable​The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Sims Metal Management, a company that claims to be the largest recycler of metal and electronics in the world, to stop polluting San Francisco Bay with toxic chemicals.The EPA announced today that Sims was found d ... More >>

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