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A local environmental watchdog group says it has reached a legal settlement with operators of the Newby Island Resource Recovery Park landfill to curb toxic runoff into local waterways. Erica Maharg, managing attorney for San Francisco Baykeeper, said in an interview last month that in the four years the organization monitored Newby Island starting in 2012, the facility consistently released excessive levels of pollutants into Coyote and Lower Penitencia creeks in violation of the Clean Water Act.
From phone banks to rallies, immigration activists this week are intensifying demands that Congress pass Dream Act legislation before the end of the year in order to protect the country's 800,000 DACA recipients from deportation. Thousands of immigrants and advocates rallied at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday calling on GOP lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation that would provide protections for DACA recipients or “Dreamers” after President Donald Trump ended the program in September.
Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, of the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, speaks during a press conference with public officials and faith leaders with the grassroots organization PACT at City Hall in San Jose, Calif., Friday, April 6, 2017. PACT will launch a county-wide "solidarity network" aimed at protecting and defending "immigrants who are living in fear under the threat of deportation."