Subject: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• The Simpsons Movie : Grade A- “… It Doesn’t Suck!...”

  July 26, 2007

• Marin Sewer Pipes Serve SF Bay a Shit Sunday with Dead Birds on Top

  February 13, 2008

• Groups Suing EPA Over Chemicals Used Widely in CA

  April 14, 2008

• Wii's Samurai Warriors Offers Dull Swordplay

  January 30, 2008

• Joe DiMaggio's Home City Honored by EPA -- and It's Not San Francisco

  ...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

  April 17, 2009

• Pollution Absolution

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

  July 18, 2007

• Global Warning

  Al Gore was in town last week to remind us all that we're ruining the planet. But do you think the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hot air?

  December 20, 2006

• What Lies Beneath

  December 20, 2006

• Toxic Acres

  The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

  May 24, 2006

• Reps Etc.

  August 3, 2005

• Fishing on the Dock of the Bay

  Too many fishermen are still unaware of the dangers of consuming San Francisco Bay seafood

  December 15, 2004

• Bioscience Warfare

  UC professor Tyrone Hayes found that a highly profitable weed killer causes sexual abnormalities in frogs. Then he found out how nasty a biotech multinational can be.

  June 2, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  October 15, 2003

• Glowing Review

  The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred

  October 1, 2003

• Diseaseville

  Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

  August 27, 2003

• Hot Story

  Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard

  May 21, 2003

• Calling All Yahoos

  November 27, 2002

• Papered Over

  The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

  August 21, 2002

• Burning Mad

  July 31, 2002

• Fallout: The Past Is Present

  The Nuclear Witnesses

  July 31, 2002

• Massing Gas

  San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

  January 2, 2002

• Apples and Oranges; Water Fight

  December 19, 2001

• Now, the Emphatic Colonic News

  Chevron to Turks: Bay is pristine! GOP to pot doctor: Good job! Tenants to landlords: You're illegal! Potheads to supervisors: Like, wow -- a sanctuary!

  July 18, 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.

  June 27, 2001

• Dragon Bites

  A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

  June 13, 2001

• Pointed Queries

  Three California members of Congress are demanding information from the Navy about radioactive materials at Hunters Point Shipyard

  May 23, 2001

• Fallout

  May 9, 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

  May 2, 2001

• The Return of the Screw

  PG&E is doing to New England what greedy, polluting, out-of-state energy suppliers have done to PG&E and California

  April 25, 2001

• Regulating Change

  December 27, 2000

• Current Events

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

  August 2, 2000

• Shaky Ground

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

  January 5, 2000

• Political Economy

  How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

  August 25, 1999

• Midway to Nowhere

  September 16, 1998

• Dirty Dealings at the Dock

  San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

  February 25, 1998

• 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?

  October 1, 1997

• No Place Like House

  September 3, 1997

• The Sky's the Limit

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

  September 3, 1997

• Dish

  February 14, 1996

• EPA Busts Contractor For Keeping Mum On Lead-Based Paint At Castro District Dwelling

  The gold is on City Hall's dome -- and the lead is apparently on Ord StreetAnyone who sees a red door and feels a compulsion to paint it black should heed the fate of South San Francisco's Fine Custom Painting, Inc. The painting contractor was this week fined $10,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for commencing on the scraping and re-painting of a multi-family unit at 129-131 Ord in San Francisco without bothering to tell the folks living within that they were, in essence, sand-blasting

  May 6, 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. The aformentioned organization filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency last week in San Francisco alleging the EPA isn't doing enough EP. Juvenal's statement, it seems, was made in a

  June 8, 2009

• The Man Who Cried Dust

  July 1, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  July 8, 2009

• Bay Links: Futuristic Architecture, Bacon & Bluegrass

  IwamotoScott​Bay Area firm designs futuristic buildings for NYC. [Curbed SF]"Condescending e-mails, bizarre letters and abusive voice-mail messages..." The life of a San Francisco supervisor aide. [Sweet Melissa]Headed to the Disney Museum? Don't bring the camera. [BoingBoing]Is an unhealthy relationship with work causing motor vehicle accidents? [Streetsblog SF]Things that look like bacon. [Sexpigeon]Pictures of pictures. [EPA and Around the Bay]Here's a list of the 38 (why 38?) "essential" S

  October 2, 2009

• Bay Links: Single Ladies, Open Studios & Your Genes

  via On the BlockHow much would you pay for this?​Some of the most uninspiring "house porn" ever produced. [On the Block]San Franciscans are terrified of single women, love Clist Missed Connections. [SFAppeal] Is public transit accessible affordable housing in jeopardy? [Streetsblog]Faces of last weekend's open studios. [EPA and Around the Bay] An interview with the guy who filmed the now infamous Muni throw-down. [SFist] Download these tracks and get pumped for the Treasue Island Music Festiv

  October 12, 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 same (or similar) college as they did, and, at the end of the day, hit industry-sponsored dinners and cocktails. So it's easy to comprehend why the suits at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce have

  October 16, 2009

• U.S. Sues San Francisco Over 2005 Muni Fuel Spill

  Jim Herd​UPDATE: City, DOJ, EPA Agree on $250K settlement, see details here.U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed suit against San Francisco in connection with a 2005 bus yard fuel spill that released as much as 54,000 gallons of diesel gasoline into San Francisco soil and sewers -- with some of it ultimately reaching the Bay.According to the complaint, filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, personnel at the Municipal Transportation Authority's John M. Woods Motor Coach f

  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 charging San Francisco with environmental law violations in connection with the 2005 spill at a city bus yard.In addition to the payment, the city has also agreed to train staff and install new safety equip

  October 29, 2009

• EPA Spanks Lennar With Fines For Dust (But In Arizona, Not Hunters Point)

  Oops, they did it again. Lennar, the company that drew activist hellfire for failing to control dust in Bayview during the early stages of its construction at the Hunters Point Shipyard, is now facing fines for similar dust violations in Arizona. The company will have to pay the Environmental Protection Agency a $182,519 settlement for not removing particulate matter from vehicles and not immediately cleaning up dust tracked 50 feet beyond the residential construction sites in Maricopa County,

  October 29, 2009