Urgent action alert Please call Senators Adam Schiff & Alex Padilla to urge them to reject a scheme that would leave SF Bay & imperiled species without vital protections.

A Senate vote will be happening this week so we need people to reach out ASAP!

Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/update/urgent-call-senators-schiff-and-padilla-to-reject-attack-on-endangered-species-act/

https://www.europesays.com/2051774/ Trump’s Alcatraz plan would have to clear environmental hurdles #birds #construction #Development #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpTweets #Environment #LatestHeadlines #LocalNews #NationalNews #NationalPolitics #News #Politics #SanFranciscoBay

As our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes, it seems like the Trump administration is doing its best to yank the option to protect the environment out of our hands.

But when we're all hands-on-deck and working together, we win. And our wins keep hope alive.

https://baykeeper.org/column/all-hands-on-deck/

Golden Gate in the Fog II

On this day I took a walk down at the east end of Christy Fields. As we made our way towards the Golden Gate Bridge fog started creeping in, at times, completely hiding the bridge. Depending on the wind we could see it or not for a few minutes here and there. The sun lit the bridge up wonderfully above the fog.
https://pixels.com/featured/golden-gate-in-the-fog-ii-bill-gallagher.html
#GoldenGateInTheFogII #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt#GoldenGateBridge #SanFrancisco #Fog #Pier #SanFranciscoBay

Golden Gate and The City

I captured this image of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge on a cool winter day with a small storm clearing and blowing past the city.
This was captured from a location known as Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands. Hawk Hill allows one of the highest vantage points of the bridge and the city.
https://pixels.com/featured/golden-gate-and-the-city-bill-gallagher.html
#GoldenGateAndTheCity #BillGallagherPhotography #SanFranciscoBay #SanFrancisco #GoldenGateBridge #TheCity #Clouds #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Scenic

Worryingly, the Trump administration is showing signs it will try to override rules protecting endangered species in the Bay & Delta.

"The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate the rules entirely and just go for broke, which will result in the destruction of the San Francisco Bay ecosystem. Several extinctions, permanent closures of fisheries," as our lead scientist @jarosenfield told ABC7 News: https://abc7news.com/post/scientists-express-growing-concern-trump-administration-targeting-california-environmental-laws/16017342/

A reminder of what the Bay looked like before environmental regulation—open dumping of industrial waste, raw sewage, and fuel, and constant oil spills.

Before EPA and laws like the Clean Water Act, America's waters were choked with pollution. Ohio's Cuyahoga River, which became a symbol of environmental degradation in the 60s, was so polluted that it repeatedly caught fire.

Today, it's estimated that the #CleanWaterAct alone prevents 700 *billion* pounds of toxic pollution from entering US waters every single year.

We MUST defend these vital laws and institutions.

#EPA #bayarea #sanfranciscobay #SFBay #environment #waterpollution

Photos courtesy of EPA's historic archive

The Newsom Administration wants to spend $20 billion of taxpayer dollars to build a giant tunnel that would 1) degrade water quality, 2) cause native species to go extinct & 3) do absolutely nothing to fix CA's water woes.

Learn more & take action here: https://baykeeper.org/stop-newsoms-deadly-delta-tunnel-project/

Topsail schooner sailing in San Francisco Bay on Memorial Day in 2009 - as seen from the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. #landscape #landscapephotography #seascape #seascapephotography #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sailing #sailingphotography #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #sailboat

Heads up, Bay Area Small Businesses:

If you qualify as diverse-owned, you have until 1/31/2025 to apply to provide a product or service to Super Bowl LX via the NFL Source program. Application is quick & easy. We did it. You should, too. For details, go to:

https://superbowl60suppliers.com/

Let’s do this, friends!

from Sierra Club California:

Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) is voting Tuesday, Jan 14 at 1pm whether to invest $9.69 million in planning for the destructive Delta Tunnel project.

The Tunnel is a $20.1 BILLION project that would divert millions of acre-feet of freshwater, devastating the already-fragile SF Bay Delta ecosystem. It will hurt salmon & other fish, bird, & wildlife populations, and reduce food sources for whales & other marine mammals in the Pacific Ocean. It will devastate the Stockton area’s air quality & already depressed local economy. It will hurt the cultural livelihood of Indigenous communities in Northern California.

Send your message now to Valley Water and RSVP to attend -
by phone or by zoom -
the Board meeting on Tuesday, Jan14 at 1pm to urge them to vote NO on Item 3.5, funding the next phase of the Delta tunnel.

We need huge numbers of callers to counter the comments from lobbyists for the tunnel.

https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/California?actionId=AR0508133&id=701Po00000bgjoMIAQ

Favorite bird of the day: a Townsend's warbler jumping around the brush at Bedwell Bayfront Park. The bird presumably was oblivious to the fact that this park on the edge San Francisco Bay is a former dump.

#birds #birding #SanFranciscoBay #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography

A #sewage leak of 20 million gallons of wastewater into a #ContraCostaCounty wetland could have considerable ecological consequences for fish & wildlife.

As Baykeeper executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh explained to KQED, "When you’ve got a lot of this wastewater discharging in concentrated levels in an area like that, we’re going to see some exposure to chemicals that are in wastewater. That's going to have an impact; whether or not we see that impact in this generation of fish and wildlife or in their next generation is something that we would have to see." https://www.kqed.org/news/12016804/how-major-east-bay-sewage-leak-could-harm-fish-wildlife

Baykeeper often gets asked whether it's safe to swim in #SFBay--and the answer is usually an emphatic "Yes!"

But there's an important exception to keep in mind. Direct contact with the Bay should be avoided for at least 48 hours after a rain storm. The heavier the rainfall, the longer you should wait to get into the water

Here's why: https://baykeeper.org/update/is-there-sewage-pollution-in-the-bay/