Save The Bay Blog

By Amy Ricard, Communications and Policy Associate Fish and wildlife may finally get some relief from pervasive trash pollution. Yesterday, the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to approve historic and long-overdue requirements for cities to make significant, measurable reductions in trash flowing to the Bay. This is great news for the Bay! [...]

By Amy Ricard, Communications and Policy Associate Last week Save The Bay launched its 4th annual list of Bay Trash Hot Spots in anticipation of Coastal Cleanup Day to raise awareness about the trash problem in the Bay and to recruit volunteers to Coastal Cleanup events throughout the region. This year, we put the spotlight [...]

Have you checked out our Bay Trash Hot Spots yet? Click on the link below to see our interactive map, watch our clever two-minute video, take action and sign up to volunteer! http://farm.sproutbuilder.com/load/9wBK8TP2GCAp6b3n.swf?v=1252960637

By Laura Reinhard, Policy Associate Watch out for higher prices in your grocery bills — maybe plastic bags will end up costing stores even more as plastic bag industry lawyers and lobbyists fly around the country squashing local initiatives. Seattle’s groundbreaking proposal to place a 20-cent fee on all single-use bags was defeated Tuesday in [...]

Last year Save The Bay launched the Clean Bay Project (formerly Cities Keep It Clean) to provide Bay Area cities with a roadmap to a cleaner San Francisco Bay and empower them to adopt innovative and common sense programs to reduce Bay runoff pollution. The Bay Area’s largest city, San Jose, is the first Clean [...]