Save The Bay Blog

After a stern rejection in Redwood City last week, Cargill’s development partner DMB immediately promised to keep pushing to build a new city on restorable salt ponds that would threaten the health of the Bay, put residents in the path of rising seas and forever destroy open space. Despite overwhelming public opposition, these stubborn corporations [...]

After more than a quarter-century on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission staff, Will Travis retired last month as Executive Director.  Save The Bay has always paid special attention to the agency we helped create, and BCDC’s Commissioners and staff care a great deal about Save The Bay’s opinions.  So I got to [...]

All year, Save The Bay has been celebrating our 50th Anniversary, the organization’s dynamic founders, remarkable accomplishments, and ambitious goals for the future. More than 500 people celebrated last month at our sold-out gala event “Splash, 50 Years of Making Waves,” re-dedicating all of us to protect and restore the Bay. Participating in these anniversary [...]

Yesterday, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) voted unanimously to adopt new policies to guide how shoreline communities should adapt to expected sea level rise. BCDC is the state agency we helped create 46 years ago to regulate activity in the Bay and on its shoreline. Before that, unchecked diking and filling [...]

More than a decade ago, the Bay’s largest port promised to create crucial habitat for fish and wildlife if regulators would let it dredge a deeper channel. Today there is no evidence that this “mitigation” for dredging damage has produced the required benefits, or that Bay protection agencies have been watchdogs enforcing their permits. Because [...]