PG&E could be held liable for continued discharges of pollution into the San Francisco Bay that came from a now-demolished gas factory operated at the turn of the century.
This map featured in ongoing litigation against PG&E shows the location of the Cannery gas plant along with three other century-old manufactured gas plants for which PG&E agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in 2018.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Rejecting arguments that a utility can’t be sued over century-old pollution, a federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will likely advance a lawsuit seeking to hold Pacific Gas and Electric liable for contamination that occurred more than 100 years ago.
click to enlarge Courtesy of Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate The corner of the rehabbed building that once housed the North Coast Co-op and will soon be home to local chocolate and coffee businesses.
If all goes to plan, by this time next year, the sea air along Eureka s waterfront could carry notes of coffee and chocolate. The former home of the North Coast Co-op, empty since 1992 and rehabilitated by the late Pierre LeFuel and Karen Banning, is to be home to an expanded Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate and Humboldt Bay Coffee Co. More space means more goodies, says Brianne Taylor, sales and marketing manager at Dick Taylor. That applies to the currently limited room for chocolate bars and baked goods, as well as tours and tasting events. The new venue is being designed for more of a café experience. Humboldt Bay Coffee Co. will follow suit, while keeping its main roasting facility off site, it s leasing the spot on th
In defense of Pier 39. May it rise after the pandemic kitschier than ever
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Richard Nixon. The Zodiac Killer. The Embarcadero Freeway. The Oil Crisis. The Bee Gees.
Nothing
else from the 1970s got worse reviews in the pages of The San Francisco Chronicle than Pier 39. The waterfront tourist center, upon its arrival in 1978, the greatest existential crisis in the city’s history larger than an earthquake and fire that destroyed half of San Francisco in 1906. (For all its horrors, no one compared the earthquake to prostitution.)
“Tourism kills, believe me,” columnist Charles McCabe wrote unironically on Nov. 20, 1978. “My objection is that the City Fathers (and a mother or two) have caved in wholly before the idea of tourism, which I happened to think is the worst thing that has happened to San Francisco. … These strangers tend to treat these amenities with much the same regard as a john pays to a whore.”