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“The Navy has yet to put forward a formal plan for cleaning up or removing the landfill. Navy officials have said they are considering creating a permanent cap and leaving the landfill in place. Any plan would require EPA approval, which is not likely in the immediate future. The EPA has not taken a position on the landfill,” says Michael Work, one of the project mangers for the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund cleanup....

In the late 20th Century, the northern hemisphere experienced its most widespread warmth for 1,200 years, according to the journal Science....

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Susan Leal who is the General Manager of SFPUC defy the community and want to place 3 dangerous, toxic spewing Combustion Turbines (CT) in the Bayview. These CT will spew PM-2.5 very tiny and very dangerous to the health of thousands that work and live in the area around Pier 80. The land is land fill and prone to liquefaction but all this does not disturb Mayor Gavin Newsom....

Visit http://www.GallinasCreek.org for developments in an exciting battle to save an important endangered species habitat from the developers bulldozer. What's at stake is the serenity of a beautiful neighborhood and nearby breeding grounds of the endangered marsh mouse and California Clapper Rail, on one of Marin County's widest creeks....

Canada is to protect a vast swath of intact temperate rainforest along its Pacific coast, under an agreement unveiled yesterday between the British Columbia government, local indigenous peoples, environmental groups and major logging companies....

Interviews with several leaders in the struggle for environmental justice in the San Joaquin Valley....

Mayor Gavin Newsom does not have answers when given the data it can be proved that Quality of Life Issues in the last 3 years is at its worst in San Francisco. Poor people are suffering and dying from lack of health care and compassion. Our youth are suffering and the youth have NO respect for Mayor Gavin Newsom. Our infrastructure is in bad shape with millions of gallons of sewer leaching into our watershed. Mayor Gavin Newsom is about Spin and Media hype....

Protesters vow to stop Calpine Energy Corporation's plans to destroy the Sacred Medicine Lake Highlands and other Native cultural and natural places...

Disney now has plans to open up some of its marketing operations at the Presidio of San Francisco. Disney, is touting a museum and aiming to leaser some of the 100 series buildings on the Main Post. First it was George Lucas and it got a bargain$5 million lease for a long, long time. Now here come Mickey Mouse and Mickey Mouse one would wonder is into Preservation and Preservation?...

A tanker carrying almost five million gallons of oil and petrol broke free of its moorings while loading at an Alaskan refinery yesterday and began leaking into the Cook Inlet approach to Anchorage....