Welcome to Bay Planning Coalition

Leading policy advocacy and consensus building on issues facing the San Francisco Bay

Join Our Mailing List

Ravenswood Levee, Trails and Habitat Work to Bring Trucks through Bedwell Bayfront Park

Starting as early as June 11, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge will launch levee maintenance work at its Ravenswood Ponds in Menlo Park, resulting in truck traffic through the City of Menlo Park’s Bedwell Bayfront Park next door. Maintenance work will shore up and repair pond […]

Continue Reading
  • by BPC Staff
  • onJune 6, 2018
  • 0 Comments

Transportation News for June 6, 2018

San Francisco Chronicle: $3 hike to Bay Area tolls appears to have support in early vote returns Mercury News: Bay Area voters OK higher bridge tolls to curb traffic Fairfield Daily Republic: RM 3 carries day across 9-county Bay Area; loses in Solano, Contra Costa counties Napa Valley Register: Measure to raise Bay Area bridge […]

Continue Reading
  • by BPC Staff
  • onJune 6, 2018
  • 0 Comments

Energy News for June 6, 2018

Bloomberg: Biofuel Policy Revision on Verge of Collapse, Sources Say Financial Times: ExxonMobil and Chevron accused over tax secrecy The Wall Street Journal: As Oil Soars, Few Hedge Funds Are Left to Profit E&E News: FERC could have role in Trump’s plan for coal, nuclear CNBC: ‘Economy crippling’ and ‘third grade’ work: Conservatives pan Trump’s […]

Continue Reading
  • by BPC Staff
  • onJune 6, 2018
  • 0 Comments

Water News for June 6, 2018

KQED Science: Another Danger from Over-pumping Groundwater: Arsenic Western Farm Press: Senator pushes for revote on Temperance Flat rating Almanac News: Menlo Park: City prepares to invest in water system Chico Enterprise-Record: Editorial: Gallagher’s important bills killed without a debate Investors Hub: They are still working at repairing the Oroville Dam! Press-Enterprise: Prado Dam mural […]

Continue Reading

Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for June 5, 2018

      SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Can You Dig It?   By Chris Philips, Managing Editor     In mid-April, Nancy McLernon, president and CEO of Organization for International Investment, wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which she claimed that […]

Continue Reading
  • by BPC Staff
  • onJune 5, 2018
  • 0 Comments

Transportation News for June 5, 2018

KQED: On the Eve of Measure 3, a Poll Asking What People Might Pay to Make Traffic Go Away San Francisco Chronicle: Bye-bye, SF scooters as Bird, Lime and Spin go on hiatus San Francisco Chronicle: Scooter firms swear they’re not riding roughshod over users’ privacy San Francisco Chronicle: Huge amount of San Francisco Transbay […]

Continue Reading
  • by BPC Staff
  • onJune 5, 2018
  • 0 Comments

Energy News for June 5, 2018

Bloomberg: U.S. Asks OPEC for 1 Million Barrel a Day Oil Output Hike The Wall Street Journal: OPEC Faces New Concern Over Global Oil Supply: China Platts: Proposed permit fee increase in Pennsylvania not expected to slow drilling in state Washington Examiner: Trump’s order to save coal plants worsens ‘headache’ for power grid, top operator […]

Continue Reading