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Migrant Justice is Climate Justice: Join CJ/EJ day in Month of Momentum at ICE Office in SF

US ICE Office, San Francisco 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, United States

Join Climate Justice, Environmental Justice, and Environmentalist activists in a noon-hour protest at ICE headquarters on Monday, August 5.  This is part of a month-long campaign to demonstrate broad opposition to the administration’s brutal treatment of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. What: Climate Justice, Environmental Justice, and Environmentalist day of action during the "Month of […]

U.S. Courthouse - San Francisco Credit Sanfranman59 CC BY-SA 4.0

Ninth Circuit Hearing on Judge Chhabria’s Decision Against Oakland

James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse 95 Seventh Street, San Francisco, California

In Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor Room 330, a panel of three Ninth Circuit judges will hear oral argument on the appeal by the City of Oakland, Sierra Club, and San Francisco Baykeeper, from Judge Vince Chhabria's decision after a three-day trial in which he struck down Oakland's ban on on the storage and handling of […]

City Council vote on Richmond Coal Ordinance

Richmond City Hall 440 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA, United States

This is it! Join us Tuesday, December 3, at 6:30 pm at 440 Civic Center Plaza, when the Richmond City Council will finally vote on the Richmond Coal Ordinance.  The ordinance would phase out the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke (pet coke) over a three year period. (NOTE: this vote was previously scheduled for […]

Earth Day Action for Environmental and Climate Justice

CA, United States

The 50th anniversary of Earth Day is this year, on April 22 (a Wednesday). Join millions of people around the world for a three-day online mobilization to stop the climate emergency. JOIN THE 72-HOUR NATIONAL LIVESTREAM Find a listing of Bay Area based events on the website of Sunflower Alliance. Events include: online poetry readings […]

California Appeals Court: hearing on Anti-SLAPP Statute status on Tagami’s second lawsuit

Phil Tagami's Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal OBOT initially sued the City in December 2018 for breach of contract, an action which the city contends is a “strategic lawsuit against public participation” (SLAPP suit).  You can read about the stay of this lawsuit issued by Superior Court Judge Jo-Lynne Lee at https://nocoalinoakland.info/court-puts-developers-quest-for-damages-on-hold/. The hearing begins […]

California Superior Court: Hearing on City of Oakland v OBOT & CCIG

A hearing in the case City of Oakland v OBOT & CCIG will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday August 4, 2020. Information about how members of the community can watch & listen to this hearing, which is expected to be conducted online, will be posted here when it becomes available.

No To Coal, Yes To Life: Youth Climate Strike

Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA, United States

Youth vs Apocalypse has called a "No to Coal, Yes to Life" march and rally at Oscar Grant Plaza on Friday Sept 23, 2022 as part of the Global Climate Strike & Fridays for the Future. From YvA's call: West Oakland has been dealing with the threat of coal, which would worsen already terrible pollution, […]

Rally to Oppose Injection of Toxic Money into the Mayor’s Race

Rotunda Building 300 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

Come Join No Coal in Oakland Tomorrow as Oakland Community Leaders Rally to Oppose Injection of Toxic Money into the Mayor’s Race Two Weeks Before Election When: Thursday, October 27 at 4:00 PM Where: Rotunda Building, 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 Speakers: Ms. Margaret Gordon, No Coal in Oakland and West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project; […]

Town Hall: Scientists Share Results of Alarming New Coal Dust Study

New research comparing particulate emissions from trains in Richmond documented significantly more PM2.5 pollution from trains containing coal than from empty coal trains, passenger trains, and other freight trains, as NCIO reported late last month. The three scientists who conducted this study will hold an online (Zoom) meeting with community members to explain their findings […]

OBOT & OGRE v. City of Oakland – Trial Begins

OBOT & OGRE v. City of Oakland is set to go to trial in Alameda County Superior Court on July 10, 2023 at 9:00 am. Judge Noël Wise, Department 514, will preside over the case at the Hayward Hall of Justice, 24405 Amador St. The trial consolidates a suit brought by would-be coal developer Phil […]

Did You Know

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Tons of CO2 Are At Issue

More than 1 billion tons of CO2 could be added to the atmosphere if Oakland's new commodities bulk terminal by the Bay Bridge toll plaza is dedicated to coal.

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"The city of Oakland took an important step recently documenting the health and safety risks and climate impacts of coal and specifically banning its shipment through the city. Other localities should follow suit -- and the state should too -- to reduce and, ultimately, eliminate the shipment of coal through all California ports." - Gov. Jerry Brown, August 26, 2016