Headed to a landfill near you?It has taken millions of people's jobs and houses. Could the global recession now threaten our health?
This theoretical question is at the heart of a regulatory standoff between California toxics police and the automobile recycling industry.
State regulators want auto recyclers to cease dumping 700,000 tons of potentially toxic automobile recycling waste into municipal landfills, and instead cart it to special, highly-expensive, toxic-waste holding facilities. The
If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel plant from having to undergo an Environmental Impact Report back in 2008. Back in September, the city ruled that Darling International's plan to add a biodiesel facility capable of producing 7.5 million
Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco have dropped back in the pack. With the competition scheduled to end later this month, CCSF is ranked 14th and SFSU is sitting in the No. 15 spot. As w
...Oozing with leadTo say that San Francisco is a city that treasures being in the vanguard of environmentally responsible behavior (or, skeptics might say, whatever will get people talking about how environmentally responsible we are) is an understatement.So it's interesting that today -- with an eye on Earth Day -- the San Francisco-based regional branch of the Environmental Protection Agency has chosen to designate special honor on -- Contra Costa County (!) with special emphasis on the city
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