Budgetary Boost: Cap-and-Trade Revenue Tabbed for Transit Fed up with a lack of affordable housing options near public transit, or long bus headways during commutes? Your frustrations may soon ease, thanks to new investments in California’s aging trans …
A Highly Flammable Situation: Crude Oil Rolls into the Region On May 31, 2014, some 60 people gathered at the gates of a rail yard on Richmond’s industrial edge, protesting “bomb trains.” Trains handled there by energy company Kinder Morgan hold crude …
The Bay Area’s extensive water supply system includes a wide variety of hydrologic features, such as San Pablo Reservoir in the East Bay. Photo by Alec MacDonald. Water. It flows out of the tap every time we want, cool, clear, and clean. We take it for …
Tracking the Transportation Bond: A Study of 2006’s Proposition 1B Proposition 1B, part of California’s largest general obligation bond package ever offered on a single ballot, is closing in on the end of its 10-year lifespan. The 2006 program is poise …
Weighing the Water Bond: A Study of 2014’s Proposition 1 It’s hard to believe that people still power-wash sidewalks three years into California’s worst drought on record. But it’s even harder to believe that state lawmakers have hardly been better abo …
After the passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act, the League was asked to conduct related outreach by EPA Region 9 Administrator Paul DeFalco, pictured here with his wife Ernestine. She later became editor of the Bay Area Monitor in 1985. Photo courtesy Les …
Manylabs supplied Richmond High School students with air quality monitors like this one. Photo by Alec MacDonald. Are you careful about what you put in your body? Do you buy organic fruits and vegetables to avoid pesticide exposure? Do you own a reusab …
The mid-1970s were times of change for Bay Area car owners. New federal air regulations were beginning to take effect, eliminating leaded gas and prompting a flurry of proposals for vehicle inspection programs (now Smog Check). By the late 1970s, the n …
California has such a glorious climate that we can usually skip the forecast. Southern California? Mostly nice and sunny. Northern California? Aside from a few furious storms, much the same. But three straight winters of blue sky has been too much of a …
Safe Harbor: Rigging the Water Trail to Welcome Everyone Water recreation is a mainstay of Bay Area culture. And it’s about to become even more accessible. The San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail — a network of over 100 launch and landing sites for non- …