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EcoCenter Brings Environmental Justice to Bayview-Hunters Point

By Bill Picture  Published: March, 2012 The Bay Area’s first environmental justice education facility, the EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, recently received a visit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Government officials were excited to see with their own eyes how stimulus dollars helped reinvigorate a disadvantaged community by […]

Port Of Oakland And Partners Collaborate On Air Quality Demonstration Project For Diesel Trucks

Published: February, 2004 The Port of Oakland announced a year-long demonstration test of a cleaner fuel (PuriNOx™) in on-road diesel trucks that haul shipping containers to and from the Port’s marine terminals in combination with a test of a diesel oxidation catalyst, or DOC (AZ Purimuffler™)–a type of exhaust control that reduces emissions. The Port, […]

ON OUR COVER September 2014

Published: September, 2014 For much of his 35-plus year career, Brian Baird made waves in policy circles: first at the California Coastal Commission, then as the assistant secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy at the California Natural Resources Agency. But a couple of years ago, he started chapter two of his life, leaving the governmental […]