News, Views and Analysis from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments
With the arrival of king tides this past weekend, some in the Bay Area may see roads go underwater, albeit temporarily. Read More
Tiny mice that are on the federal endangered species list are the subject of a feature in the latest issue of San Francisco Estuary Magazine. Read More
Every two years, the San Francisco Bay Estuary Partnership brings a focus to the management and ecological health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. Read More
Resiliency is the key issue highlighted in the State of the Estuary Report issued Monday by the San Francisco Estuary Partnership.
This is the first report on the health of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary since 2015. It’s being issued as the two-day, 14th biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference gets underway at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. The report can be found at www.sfestuary.org/our-estuary/soter. A video on the report is here. Read More
Maxwell Corleone of Hayward first explored the San Francisco Bay Trail through a middle school science club biking from the San Leandro Marina to the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center without ever needing to go on a street. Read More
A landmark project for the Bay Area aimed at reducing the amount of polluted water draining into San Francisco Bay broke ground Monday in Berkeley. Read More
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s Clean Vessel Act Program received an Outstanding Service Award from the States Organization for Boating Access (SOBA) at the national SOBA meeting last week in Virginia. Read More
Last month, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution designating September 14-21, 2019 as the seventh annual National Estuaries Week. Read More
The Protect and Restore America’s Estuaries Act, a bipartisan bill which would reauthorize the National Estuary Program (NEP), was introduced last week by U.S. Representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ). Read More