San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recommended budget would significantly reduce city support for the city’s Environment ...

A federal housing assistance program affecting more than 900 San Francisco households will expire sooner than expected.

Pest infestations and other issues went unaddressed by the building for so long that San Francisco escalated the SRO case to ...

Ben Santer never imagined that 12 words could change the trajectory of his life and humanity’s understanding of what it was doing to the planet: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human ...

We will screen two short films that shed light on the political and economic challenges of accessing abortions and reproductive health care.

Join the San Francisco Public Press for a screening of “No Place to Grow Old,” about the rising crisis of older adults facing homelessness.

Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes ...

Researchers wrote that testing on animals first would have produced unreliable results, so they proceeded to apply radioactive substances to human skin to see how well it could be cleaned off. Source: ...

In September 1956, Cpl. Eldridge Jones found himself atop a sunbaked roof at an old Army camp about an hour outside San Francisco, shoveling radioactive dirt. Too young for Korea and too old for ...

Environmental health advocate Raymond Tompkins served on a community panel tasked with reviewing cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood before the Navy ...

Book chapter excerpted and lightly adapted, with permission of Chris Carlsson and Lisa Ruth Elliott, editors, from “Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco ...

In the 1950s, the army ordered Eldridge Jones to clean up radioactive materials scientists had spread outdoors to study possible decontamination methods in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Credit: ...