Save The Bay Blog

Check out this week’s Weekly Roundup for breaking news affecting San Francisco Bay. Los Angeles Times 5/15/13 Volunteers pull tons (and tons) of trash from California waterways The Ocean Conservancy has run the numbers, and over the course of a single day in September 2012, more than 500,000 volunteers from across the globe collected 10 [...]

SF Examiner 5/5/13 Warriors unveil new S.F. arena plans The Warriors unveiled new detailed designs for their proposed San Francisco waterfront arena and nearby development ahead of a bevy of public hearings in the coming weeks. The Warriors presented their first plans in October for the piers. Since then, many state and local agencies, along [...]

In this week’s roundup, Save The Bay’s founder Sylvia McLaughlin is honored with a renaming of Eastshore State Park. Monday was a big day for fighting plastic pollution in the Bay, as San Francisco’s plastic ban now applies to all local retailers. David Lewis was quoted in the Chronicle: “San Francisco is showing that it [...]

Our iconic San Francisco Bay is an undisputed natural treasure that, in many ways, defines this place we call home. This may not have been the case if Save the Bay hadn’t started its fight to preserve the Bay from over development 51 years ago. Today, our Bay faces another threat that not only looms over the Bay, but the [...]

This week, we announced our 6th annual list of Bay Trash Hot Spots, creeks and shorelines that are so polluted they are in violation of the Clean Water Act. Check out the coverage below. As tens of thousands of volunteers prepare for tomorrow’s Coastal Cleanup Day, they may find tsunami debris and tiny plastic pellets [...]