4 results for month: 07/2026

Richmond City Council urges strict regulation of coal facilities by the Bay Area Air District

This evening the Richmond City Council unanimously passed a resolution “opposing facilities that engage in handling and storage of coal and petcoke in the San Francisco Bay region and urging stringent regulation of such facilities by the Bay Area Air District.” The measure adopted by the Richmond City Council can be found (still in draft form as of this evening) on pub-richmond.escribemeetings.com. The resolution “urges the Air District to ensure that any air permit it issues to the OBOT facility fully protects Oakland and other Bay area residents from exposure to dangerous coal and petcoke emissions” and to “to perform a comprehensive ...

Rep. Lateefah Simon: GAO must investigate Trump’s abuse of DPA to bail out coal

In late July, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon joined California Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, as well as Congressmen Jared Huffman, John Garamendi, and Ro Khanna to demand the Government Accountability Office (GAO) "investigate the Trump Administration’s use of emergency national defense authorities and taxpayer funds to subsidize commercial coal infrastructure, including the proposed coal export terminal in West Oakland." President Trump announced his $700M coal bailout on June 4, 2026, including $75,000,000 to build "massive new export terminal" in West Oakland. From Congresswoman Simon's press release of July 27, 2026: Last week, in ...

EJ Groups Demand Fresh EIR to Assess Impact of Coal Export Terminal

With support and engagement from community groups, the Air District must undertake a fresh environmental review to ensure rigorous measures to protect residents' and workers' health and safety

No Coal in the East Bay: our campaign is expanding!

The No Coal campaign is ramping up across the East Bay … here’s a taste of ongoing activity to-date this Spring and Summer: Community Meetings and Outreach We recently held two standing-room-only Community Meetings. The first was on April 18th at the Meeting Hall at DeFremery Park in West Oakland, where more than 50 community members and activists caught up on the history of our campaign and plugged into the ongoing work of keeping a coal terminal from being built on the Oakland waterfront. The second meeting was held on June 25th at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, where an overflow crowd of 300+ engaged and amped-up community ...