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| Feb.2 |
Bay Area |
Spare the Air alert issued for Saturday |
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| Jan.31 |
Highway 101 |
Big-rig crash cleared from Hwy 101 in Sunnyvale
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| Jan.25 |
Bay Area |
Spare the Air alert in effect for Friday
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| Dec.31 |
Bay Area |
Spare the Air alert in effect through Tuesday |
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| Aug.22 |
North Richmond |
Chevron opening additional help center after fire |
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| Aug.9 |
Bay Area |
Heat wave, unhealthy air quality hits Bay Area 
Friday will be another Spare the Air day as hot temps are creating unhealthy air conditions. Some residents are seeing triple-digit temperat...
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| Aug.8 |
Richmond |
'Flare up' causes more alarm at Chevron refinery
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| Aug.7 |
Richmond |
Refinery fire out, shelter order lifted 
Fire crews allowed a 'small controlled burn' to continue as a way of reducing pressure within the damaged unit
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| Aug.6 |
Highway 238 |
Fatal accident and spill cleared from NB I-238 |
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| Dec.11 |
UC Berkeley |
Crews clean up diesel spill at UC Berkeley |
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UC Berkeley |
1,700-gallon fuel spill into creek Map of Stanley Hall Berkeley A 1,711-gallon diesel fuel spill on Saturday night washed from an underground tank into Strawberry Creek and possibly beyond
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| Dec.6 |
Bay Area |
Winter's first spare-the-air alert
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| Nov.8 |
Concord |
Smell to get worse before it gets better |
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| Sep.20 |
Bay Area |
Second straight Spare the Air declared
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| Sep.7 |
Bay Area |
High temps prompt Spare the Air alert |
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| Aug.2 |
San Bruno |
PG&E identifies mystery odor during check |
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| Jul.3 |
Bay Area |
Spare the Air alert issued for Sunday |
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| Jun.20 |
San Francisco |
Travel magazine: S.F. is among dirtiest |
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| Jun.14 |
San Jose |
Carcinogen found in recycled water |
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| Mar.18 |
UC Berkeley |
Harmless traces of radiation detected
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| Jan.7 |
SF Downtown |
Carbon monoxide exposure at hotel |
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| Dec.24 |
Marin County |
Up to 3M gallons leaked to Marin creek County officials are tripling their estimate of how much sewage leaked into Corte Madera Creek over the past week
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| Dec.22 |
Marin County |
District reports large wastewater spill |
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| Nov.28 |
SF City Hall |
City credits law for more composting bins |
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| Nov.10 |
Martinez |
Refinery sending thick smoke into air
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| Oct.23 |
Rodeo |
ConocoPhillips tries to shut down refinery
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| Oct.7 |
Alameda |
Sunken boat leaking fuel |
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| Aug.22 |
Bay Area |
First Spare The Air Alert Issued The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued its first smog alert of this summer. Air quality on Monday is expected to be unhealthy
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| Jul.30 |
Berkeley |
Activists Protest BP, Gulf Oil Spill
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| Jul.3 |
San Jose |
Warehouse Fire Prompts Shelter-In-Place
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| Jun.15 |
SF City Hall |
Cell Phone Radiation Law Gets OK |
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| Mar.27 |
Caltrain |
Train Horns Not To Loud On Peninsula |
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| Feb.25 |
Sebastopol |
Safety concerns over PG&E SmartMeters |
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| Feb.19 |
San Francisco |
Operators Of Ship In Bay Spill Fined $10M |
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| Feb.17 |
Napa |
PG&E soil tests to force tenants to move Tenants of an apartment complex have six months to leave their homes before PG&E closes and bulldozes the buildings, looking for contaminated...
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| Jan.9 |
Bay Area |
Spare The Air Day Declared For Sunday |
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| Dec.24 |
Bay Area |
No Fires For Xmas; Spare The Air Alert |
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| Nov.25 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Officials Issue Air Quality Alert |
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| Nov.1 |
Alameda |
More Oiled Wildlife Found After Bay Spill
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| Oct.31 |
Bay |
Coast Guard Scoops Up Oil In SF Bay |
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| Oct.30 |
Bay |
Tanker Spills Oil Into San Francisco Bay| U.S. Coast Guard crews were responding to an oil spill from the Dubai Star tanker anchored in the San Francisco Bay | |
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| Aug.28 |
South SF |
Ammonia leak. Thousands evacuated The leak was reported at about 5:45 a.m. at the Columbus Salame meat processing plant
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| Aug.13 |
San Francisco |
Filthy power plant to close |
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| Jul.17 |
San Francisco |
Pilot In SF Bay Spill: 10 Months In Prison| John Cota, 61, of Petaluma, was sentenced in federal court to 10 months in prison for his role in a spill of more than 53,000 gallons | |
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| Jul.2 |
Richmond |
Chevron expansion on hold |
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| May.30 |
Dublin |
Evacuated Residents Return After Spill |
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| May.16 |
Bay Area |
Spare The Air Alert For 2nd Day In A Row
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| Feb.25 |
Richmond |
Sewage Spill Prompts Warning
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SF City Hall |
S.F. pushes PG&E on bay sediment probe |
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| Feb.21 |
Sausalito |
Marin authorities lift sewage spill advisory |
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| Feb.17 |
Sausalito |
Sewage Spilling Into SF Bay Map of Fort Baker Sausalito| Partially treated sewage was spilling at least 36,000 gallons. A defective pipe joint is responsible for the incident. A defective weld of a 'hand hole' along the pipe from when it wa... | |
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| Jun.26 |
Bay Area |
Smoke Invades Bay Area Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout N. California made the sun appear pink as it rose and has caused health concerns
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| Jun.14 |
Marin County |
Beach opens after Cosco residue cean-up |
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| Jun.7 |
Richmond |
City caps 'drty' crude at Chevron refinery |
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| May.14 |
Martinez |
Tugboat Crash Causes Minor Fuel Spill A gasoline spill in Suisun Bay east of the Benicia Bridge initially estimated to be 1,500 gallons turned out to have been only 10 gallons
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| May.6 |
Richmond |
Fish, Birds Dead After Chemical Spill Dozens of fish and two mallard ducks were found dead in an irrigation ditch after a toxic solvent leaked from a chemical plant
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Richmond |
Chemical Spill Reaches San Pablo Bay |
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| May.5 |
Richmond |
Shelter-in-place after chemical leak |
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| Mar.29 |
San Francisco |
City to go dark for Earth Hour |
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| Feb.10 |
Marin County |
More Dead Birds Along Richardson Bay More than 100 dead birds have turned up dead in the same area that was contaminated by two untreated sewage spills last month
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| Feb.9 |
Marin County |
Dead birds washing up on Richardson Bay 65 birds have shown up dead including about a dozen yesterday. Many suspect that two recent sewage spills may be to blame
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| Feb.2 |
Mill Valley |
Waters near Bay sewage spill contaminated |
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Livermore Lab |
Delay in notifying workers about exposure |
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Mill Valley |
3 Million Gallons Of Sewage Spills Into Bay| Nearly 3 million gallons of partially treated sewage and storm water spilled into an arm of the SF Bay from a water treatment plant | |
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| Jan.29 |
Highway 101 |
Gas Spill Closes Hwy.101 Both Ways Map of roadway a virtual standstill on the Redwood City All northbound and southbound lanes were blocked due to gasoline leaking from a big rig onto the roadway, a virtual standstill on the Peninsula
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| Jan.28 |
Half Moon Bay |
Oil washed up on beaches
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| Jan.7 |
SF Downtown |
Crews working to contain spill |
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| Dec.6 |
San Francisco |
Test in S.F. finds lead in lots of toys |
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| Nov.20 |
San Francisco |
Fishermen File Class-Action Suit In Spill |
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| Nov.19 |
San Francisco |
Lawmakers not satisfied with spill response Members of Congress, including House Speaker Pelosi, demanded answers on the U.S. Coast Guard's response to an oil spill
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| Nov.17 |
Pacifica |
Beaches reopen as spill cleanup continues
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| Nov.12 |
San Francisco |
Oil spill cleanup moves from water to land There are still 60 boats working to scoop up the spilled shipping fuel both inside and outside the Golden Gate
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| Nov.11 |
San Francisco |
Feinstein: Spill should not have happened |
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| Nov.10 |
San Francisco |
Coast Guard Doubles Clean Up Effort |
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| Nov.9 |
San Francisco |
Pilot of SF Bay oil ship spill investigated
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San Francisco |
Multipart cleanup effort continued
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| Nov.8 |
San Francisco |
Growing Oil Spill Closes Bay Beaches Coast Guard crews spent the night working on cleaning up 58,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the bay after a container ship bumped the Bay Bridge
| The oil spill has prompted the closures of at least 7 beaches, including Fort Point, Baker Beach, China Beach, Crissy Field, Rodeo Beach, Black Sand and Kirby Cove. The Coast Guard characterized the spill as a 'medium sized' and 'not too difficult to clean up'
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| Nov.7 |
Bay Bridge |
Fuel spilled into Bay after ship crash The collision, blamed on low visibility due to dense fog, knocked a 100-foot section of the fender that protects the tower
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| Oct.29 |
San Francisco |
Groups sue over 'mothball fleet' pollution |
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| Oct.5 |
San Jose City Hall |
SJ To Unveil Green Vision For City
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| Sep.6 |
Bay Area |
Plumas Fire Causes Hazy Bay Area Sky The fires in Santa Clara County and in Plumas County produced large amounts of smoke and ash
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| Aug.30 |
San Francisco |
Rising Temps Spark 2nd 'Spare The Air'
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| Jul.31 |
Martinez |
Massive Chemical Cleanup Far From Over |
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| Jul.11 |
Alameda County |
Trash Pileup Poses Serious Health Risk |
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| Jun.6 |
San Jose City Hall |
City to cut greenhouse gases by 25% |
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| Apr.10 |
San Jose |
Hazmat Spill At Plant Spurs Evacuations |
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| Jan.16 |
Highway 880 |
Big Rig Cleared After Fructose Spill |
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| Jan.15 |
Richmond |
Oil Fire Injures 1; Shelter-In-Place
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| Nov.13 |
San Francisco |
Sewage Spews Onto Streets Along Beach |
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| Aug.20 |
Highway 4 |
Big rig crash made fuel spill |
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| Aug.9 |
San Francisco |
Drill Replicate Boat Crash, Oil Spill
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| Jul.19 |
San Francisco |
Temps Trigger Spare The Air Day |
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| Jun.26 |
BART |
'Spare The Air Day' Means Free Commute |
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| Jun.22 |
BART |
Free Commutes 2 Days For Spare The Air
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| Jun.6 |
East Palo Alto |
Shelter-In-Place |
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| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant
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| Jan.7 |
Martinez |
Oil spill at Boat Marina |
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| Aug.18 |
Highway 101 |
Huge Chemical Spill on I-101 |
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| Jun.5 |
SF Downtown |
Al Gore: Global Warming a Real Threat |
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| Oct.31 |
Crockett |
Uncontrolled hydrocarbon release |
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| Oct.30 |
SF Sunset |
Reservoir work clouds water |
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| Oct.12 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Skies Filled with Smoke and Haze
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| Sep.22 |
Oakland |
Complains About Tap Water |
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| Sep.17 |
Redwood City |
Chemical Release in Grocery Store |
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| Jul.5 |
Martinez |
Burn Off from Refinery Clouds Skies |
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| Jun.15 |
BART |
BART: Free Rides on Spare Air Days |
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| May.26 |
Half Moon Bay |
1,000 gallons of gasoline spilled
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| Apr.29 |
East Contra Costa |
Diesel pipeline spill fouls marsh
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| Aug.10 |
Richmond |
Shelter in Place Order After Refinery Leak |
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| Jul.29 |
Oakland Downtown |
Fire Station Shut Down in Dispute |
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| Jul.17 |
Pittsburg |
Train pulling chemicals derails |
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| Apr.15 |
Pacifica |
Water Main Break, Possible Contamination |
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| Feb.15 |
OAK |
Airport evacuated due to irritant in air |
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| Jan.5 |
Fremont |
Bleach spill |
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| Dec.19 |
Benicia |
Endangered fish delayes bridge span |
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| Sep.30 |
San Francisco |
Oil recovered from sunken ship |
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| Jul.22 |
Berkeley |
Lab accused of moving radioactives |
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| Jan.26 |
Martinez |
Sulfur gas release |
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| Nov.29 |
Richmond |
Chemical released from plant Shelter-in-place ordered after sulfur trioxide was released from General Chemical Corp.
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| Oct.17 |
Martinez |
Cloud over refinery
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