State Legislature passes AB40: to require environmental review of coal projects
"Today, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 40, the Community First Coal Review Act by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, a bill to protect Californians from dusty, toxic coal pollution. The bill now heads to the Governor’s desk to await his signature. If signed into law, developers of enormous bulk coal facilities, like the one proposed in West Oakland, will have to fully disclose their projects’ impacts and develop effective mitigation measures before they are granted approval."
That's today's great news, courtesy of Earthjustice's press release. The bill was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bonta Introduces Bill To Require Full Environmental Review of Oakland Coal Terminal
Assemblymember Mia Bonta's new bill could be a gamechanger in the struggle to keep a massive coal terminal from being constructed in West Oakland.
Trump to partially fund Oakland coal terminal
Invoking war powers under the Defense Production Act, President Donald Trump today announced a $75 million grant to help build Phil Tagami's "Beautiful, Clean Coal" terminal in West Oakland. This grant covers only a fraction of the $350-400 million needed to build what Trump described as a “massive new export terminal.”
The grant is part of a $700 million package of giveaways to the coal industry that includes financing for new coal-fired power plants in Alaska and West Virginia, and support for coal plants in 10 states that voted for Trump. As an article by The ...
Bay Area Air District: protect East Bay from coal terminal apocalypse
On April 1, 2026 the Keep Coal Out of Oakland Coalition presented the Bay Area Air District with an Open Letter signed by 45 organizations and more than 1,000 East Bay residents. The letter urges the Air District to protect our local communities from emissions of toxic coal dust and other pollution that will be generated if a proposed rail-to-ship coal export terminal is built in West Oakland. Signature gathering is ongoing.
The Open Letter begins:
[...] We urge the Air District to fully exercise its permitting, regulatory, and enforcement authority to prevent increa...
lora jo foo: Rest in Power
No Coal in Oakland lost one of our leaders, our dear friend and comrade lora jo foo, who died on March 13 at the age of 75 after a short illness.
Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The New York Times
The Times headline suggested opposition to coal might drive Oakland into bankruptcy. Tales of the City's death were greatly exaggerated.
