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Deskside with David | Local Efforts Yield Regional Impact on Bay Trash

In 2010 Save The Bay estimated that about 1 million plastic bags were entering San Francisco Bay every year, from all nine counties that touch the Bay. Plastic bags choke our wetlands, smother...

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Celebrating National Estuaries Day

This week we celebrate the 25th annual National Estuaries Day. Estuaries are partially enclosed bodies of water, where rivers meet the ocean and create some of the most diverse ecosystems on the...

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Federal Government Shutdown Impacts San Francisco Bay

Photo credit: National Parks Conservation Association When you saw the headlines about today’s shutdown of the federal government, you probably wondered if it would actually affect you or anyone you...

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New Report: Restored Estuaries Provide Climate Benefits

Scientists have known that healthy tidal marshes can capture and store carbon from the atmosphere, whereas draining wetlands for agriculture and other uses releases carbon, contributing to climate...

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California Environmental Champion Began by Protecting San Francisco Bay

Byron Sher wrote and passed most of California’s environmental laws. Last week, I had the honor of presenting Save The Bay’s Founders Award to one of the greatest environmental leaders in California...

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An Open Letter to Governor Brown

Save The Bay has been working for years to rid San Francisco Bay of plastic bag pollution. This month, we are closer than ever to achieving a statewide bag ban in California. SB 270 has passed the...

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Cargill Tries to Gut the Clean Water Act to Build Homes in The Bay

Cargill Salt and its developer partner DMB revealed last month that they attempted to secure a key exemption from the federal Clean Water Act that would have weakened the nation’s top water pollution...

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Tribute: Founding Member Ralph Nobles of Redwood City

Ralph Nobles’ legacy will forever live on in our storied Bay Area environmental lore. Photo by: Christopher-Gardner Another giant in the battle to prevent overdevelopment of San Francisco Bay has died....

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Why Save The Bay Talks to Generals

In our efforts to protect and restore the Bay, we often meet with local, state and federal elected officials, senior staff at resource and regulatory agencies, and appointees to state boards and...

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Lessons from the Latest Spill

President Richard Nixon’s visit to the oiled beaches of Santa Barbara in 1969 prompted stronger federal environmental protections. Photo credit: National Archives The images from 1969 and 1971 are...

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OP-ED: Act now to protect San Francisco Bay

The Bay Area and the San Francisco Bay itself are on the cusp of a rapid transformation that will take place over the coming decades. As our region prepares to deal with the real impacts of climate...

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We’ve won big — Here’s what’s next

Bay Area voters’ approval of Measure AA is the biggest win for our Bay in decades, and it would never have happened without Save The Bay’s supporters. Our victory will mean cleaner water, more abundant...

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Op-Ed: Prop 67 bag ban stakes are global

The global effort to stop plastic from choking our oceans is under attack Nov. 8. Proposition 67 on California’s ballot would ban giveaways of single-use plastic shopping bags throughout our state,...

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In Memoriam: Harold Gilliam

Harold Gilliam was a pioneer of environmental journalism, and was one of the original 10 who were present in the Berkeley living room where our organization was conceived in 1961. Photo: Russell Yip,...

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California Environmental Champion Began by Protecting San Francisco Bay

Byron Sher wrote and passed most of California’s environmental laws. Last week, I had the honor of presenting Save The Bay’s Founders Award to one of the greatest environmental leaders in California...

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An Open Letter to Governor Brown

Save The Bay has been working for years to rid San Francisco Bay of plastic bag pollution. This month, we are closer than ever to achieving a statewide bag ban in California. SB 270 has passed the...

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Cargill Tries to Gut the Clean Water Act to Build Homes in The Bay

Cargill Salt and its developer partner DMB revealed last month that they attempted to secure a key exemption from the federal Clean Water Act that would have weakened the nation’s top water pollution...

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Tribute: Founding Member Ralph Nobles of Redwood City

Ralph Nobles’ legacy will forever live on in our storied Bay Area environmental lore. Photo by: Christopher-Gardner Another giant in the battle to prevent overdevelopment of San Francisco Bay has died....

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Why Save The Bay Talks to Generals

In our efforts to protect and restore the Bay, we often meet with local, state and federal elected officials, senior staff at resource and regulatory agencies, and appointees to state boards and...

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Lessons from the Latest Spill

President Richard Nixon’s visit to the oiled beaches of Santa Barbara in 1969 prompted stronger federal environmental protections. Photo credit: National Archives The images from 1969 and 1971 are...

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