Attorney General Rob Bonta said the port plan would worsen West Oakland’s air pollution, “resulting in shorter life spans, more trips to the emergency room, and chronic illness.”
OAKLAND — California’s top prosecutor has joined the legal fight against a port project that environmentalists say would worsen West Oakland’s already harmful air pollution.
The company received approval from the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners earlier this year, but both were promptly sued by a local environmentalist group over concerns the plant would leave West Oakland residents vulnerable to breathing dust and sand particles that blow in the wind. Bonta called on port officials to revise their plans so those harms are curbed, saying in a statement the terminal “will only add to pollution burden, resulting in shorter life spans, more trips to the emergency room, and chronic illness.”
Port officials earlier this year defended the project, noting that electric trucks and conveyor belts would be used to transport the materials, a wash station would be installed and recycled water used to reduce dust, though they acknowledged that they“It would not be possible to meet the Port goals and operate the proposed project while also avoiding all significant impacts,” port staff wrote in a memo after describing the positive impact on jobs and revenue.
It’s about time, said the group’s executive director, Margaret Gordon. The group has been calling on regulatory agencies for over three decades to give West Oakland’s air quality a closer look. The port has traditionally prioritized container shipments of goods over those of raw materials. But Eagle Rock promised to operate at a large scale, receiving 2.5 million tons of construction materials on 48 ocean-going vessels a year.
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