Berkeley Passes Resolution Against Toxic Coal Threat
Last night, over 125 people rallied outside Berkeley City Council in support of a resolution opposing coal handling, storage, and transport in the Bay Area while dozens of No Coal advocates made their support known to the City Council with signs and comments.
The Berkeley City Council passed the resolution unanimously.
The resolution is a response to the deadly Trump-funded coal terminal planned in West Oakland. The resolution also calls for the Bay Area Air District to strictly regulate coal facilities, and affirms the City’s support of Assembly Bill 40, which ...
Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas urges Gov. Newsom to sign AB40 into law
Emphatic support for AB40, the Community First Coal Review Act, was conveyed to Governor Newsom by Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas (District 5) in an eloquent and detailed letter dated September 9, 2026.
Supervisor Fortunato Bas represents a district that includes the West Gateway site where developers plan to build the proposed coal terminal, as well as the West Oakland neighborhoods adjacent to the site. District 5 also includes Emeryville, Berkeley, and Albany, three of the East Bay cities through which “unit trains” of 100 cars would pass if the ...
Utah Study Blesses Investment in Oakland Coal Terminal But Leaves Key Questions Unanswered
Will open piles of coal in Oakland replace the open pile in Richmond? A new report reveals lastest plan for the West Oakland coal terminal.
Why a West Oakland coal terminal matters to Berkeley
On Tuesday evening next week – September 15, 2026 – the Berkeley City Council will vote on the adoption of a resolution “in opposition to the handling, storage, and transport of coal and petroleum coke in the San Francisco Bay Region, urging stringent regulation of such facilities by the Bay Area Air District, and in support of Assembly Bill (AB) 40.” Starting at 6:00 pm outside the City Council meeting, the Keep Coal Out of the East Bay campaign will stage a rally and – we hope – a celebration of the resolution’s passage (event details here).
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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.
