In a letter to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, BPC provided comment on the Water Board’s recent Tentative Order for General Waste Discharge Requirements for Discharges from Dry Dock Operations in the San Francisco Bay region. The proposed order affects a number of BPC’s members, including Bay Ship & Yacht Company (Bay Ship). […]
Continue ReadingRepresentatives of BPC’s Dredging & Beneficial Reuse Committee recently became designated members of the Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) Exposure and Effects Workgroup and attended a meeting of the group where a dredging-related study was presented. The study, which is currently in draft form, looks at the impact of periodic dredging on macroinvertebrate prey availability for […]
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, June 28, Bay Planning Coalition held a workshop on Confronting Bay Area Cyber Risk, where experts in cybersecurity and information technology discussed the cybersecurity issues facing businesses and utilities in our region and the steps that organizations can take to address them. Topics covered included: What is a “cyber event”? Panelists discussed what counts […]
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Chronicle: BART replaces all decoy cameras on train cars with real ones Mercury News: California to stop suspending licenses for traffic fines Mercury News: Menlo Park fire district may fund $350K for pedestrian signal Mercury News: New, bigger incentives for electric cars could be ahead in California Mercury News: Roadshow: Can this be true? Los Gatos traffic may […]
Continue Readinginstitute insights Baseball, balance and the best since the boom june 2017 Measuring the economic impact of building a new stadium in oakland Last Tuesday, Economic Institute Vice President Jeff Bellisario, joined by Oakland Athletics’ President Dave Kaval, discussed the findings of a new Institute report on the economic impact […]
Continue ReadingFor Immediate Release June 28, 2017 Contact: Adam Russell (Feinstein), 202-224-9629 Megan Taylor (Heller), 202-224-6244 Samantha Slater (Bennet), 202-510-7014 Casey Contres (Gardner), 202-224-5941 Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Encourage Residential Water Conservation Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) today introduced the Water Conservation Tax […]
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Continue ReadingCBS San Francisco Bay Area: Winter Runoff Straining Delta’s Levees Contagionlive.com: California Flooding May Create Breeding Grounds for West Nile Virus Western Farm Press: When it comes to water, will California ever learn? Sacramento Bee: There’s no green light for terrible Delta tunnels News Deeply: California Faces Its First Big Deadline for Groundwater Law agprofessional.com: Automated Water Records to Support Agriculture […]
Continue ReadingSUMMER ISSUE PREVIEW Meet the Dragonflies! Photo: Rick Lewis Signs of the Season: Most of the things flying over your head aren’t birds. Meet some of the large and dazzling insects that propel themselves around the world and stop in Northern California. Read the cover story Bay Nature’s July-September 2017 issue also features: […]
Continue ReadingThank you to everyone who attended a Plan Bay Area 2040 open house or public hearing in May and submitted comments on the Draft Plan or the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR). On June 9, a summary of what we heard from residents was presented to the Joint MTC Planning and ABAG Administrative Committee. You […]
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