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That move marks the last step in finalizing a settlement with the Port and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. The environmental group sued to stop the project in March 2022 on the grounds that it would “expose an entire new generation of West Oaklanders to increased air pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires the developer to put in place watering and monitoring protocols to reduce dust from aggregate stockpiles. They also must use vessels that are powered by the grid and connected to the shore, when they are docked, instead of burning heavy diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about electric trucks, but that was as far as they wanted to go. So now they’re going further,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We didn’t get everything, but we got enough to say there’s a change coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984451 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person leans on a railing outside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Gordon, co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), outside the WOEIP offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lease agreement allows Eagle Rock Aggregates to build and run a Port terminal for importing, storing and distributing sand and gravel. Under the project estimates, trucks would take 70,000 trips annually to carry the material, and the facility could store as much as 2.5 million tons of sand and gravel each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, Eagle Rock President Scott Dryden said he is “excited to continue serving the Bay Area and to solidify the collaborative relationship with our neighbors in West Oakland.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Brandes, the director of maritime for the Port of Oakland, said he was pleased with the outcome and appreciates the push from the community for lower emissions and clean air. He said he understands residents’ concerns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/port-of-oakland-achieved-86-reduction-in-diesel-emissions/\">and the Port has reduced emissions significantly over the last decade. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Port is a much cleaner area than it was ten, fifteen years ago,” Brandes said. “We’re going to continue to drive down to zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said construction material from the project will also help the city of Oakland meet its housing development goals while boosting revenue for the Port. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmentalists argued in their lawsuit that the project put residents at risk by storing construction aggregates in stockpiles as high as 25 feet, holding as much as 329,000 tons each, “with no covering to block wind or rain, allowing dust and particulates to blow off the site or run off the piles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not cover the material that would blow out the port area, but we did get them to develop a plan to water it down so the particulates will not be generated through the port area,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the lawsuit brought necessary attention to concerns about the project’s impact on the community, and forced that conversation. The lawsuit also requires the Port or Eagle Rock to hold an educational session for the community regarding the aggregate terminal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the settlement. They have to come out and talk to us,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta had also joined the lawsuit over his concerns about the Port’s environmental analysis of the project, noting that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is required to reduce air pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said in \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-protect-environmental-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement that the settlement secured binding commitments\u003c/a> to mitigate the Eagle Rock project’s air quality impacts and provide other benefits for West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded. The Bureau of Environmental Justice within my office exists to right those wrongs, and today is proof that our efforts are making a positive difference,” Bonta said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Attorney General Rob Bonta\"]‘For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded.’[/pullquote]Residents in West Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood, are already breathing air that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood\">contains high levels of toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a>. They face higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease, premature death and other poor health outcomes related to air pollution than other parts of the region, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/owning-our-air-plan-summary-pdf.pdf\">according to state air officials (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, meanwhile, is caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/08/oaklands-long-running-coal-war-goes-to-trial-with-developers-pitted-against-the-city/\">legal fight\u003c/a> with a developer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/07/11/trial-begins-in-oakland-coal-fight/\">who has sought to build an export terminal at the old West Oakland Army Base located at the port.\u003c/a> Gordon’s group have pressed back on that project as well in an effort to prevent the transport of coal through their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups have \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/01/oakland-environmentalists-say-airport-expansion-bad-pollution-climate/\">also raised concern\u003c/a> about the Port’s plan to expand the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Eagle Rock project, Brian Beveridge, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, said the group will continue to keep an eye on whether the Port is keeping its part of the deal, and will keep residents informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in a neighborhood [cannot] spend their life trying to keep an eye on whether a gravel terminal is doing the right thing or not,” Beveridge said. “And so we try to serve that role and help. When there’s something the community needs to think about, we make sure they know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Port of Oakland settled a lawsuit with West Oakland environmentalists who argued the project would expose residents to pollution. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845890,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":939},"headData":{"title":"After Final Vote, Open-Air Gravel Plant Appears Headed to Oakland's Port | KQED","description":"The Port of Oakland settled a lawsuit with West Oakland environmentalists who argued the project would expose residents to pollution. 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That move marks the last step in finalizing a settlement with the Port and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. The environmental group sued to stop the project in March 2022 on the grounds that it would “expose an entire new generation of West Oaklanders to increased air pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires the developer to put in place watering and monitoring protocols to reduce dust from aggregate stockpiles. They also must use vessels that are powered by the grid and connected to the shore, when they are docked, instead of burning heavy diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about electric trucks, but that was as far as they wanted to go. So now they’re going further,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We didn’t get everything, but we got enough to say there’s a change coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984451 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person leans on a railing outside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Gordon, co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), outside the WOEIP offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lease agreement allows Eagle Rock Aggregates to build and run a Port terminal for importing, storing and distributing sand and gravel. Under the project estimates, trucks would take 70,000 trips annually to carry the material, and the facility could store as much as 2.5 million tons of sand and gravel each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, Eagle Rock President Scott Dryden said he is “excited to continue serving the Bay Area and to solidify the collaborative relationship with our neighbors in West Oakland.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Brandes, the director of maritime for the Port of Oakland, said he was pleased with the outcome and appreciates the push from the community for lower emissions and clean air. He said he understands residents’ concerns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/port-of-oakland-achieved-86-reduction-in-diesel-emissions/\">and the Port has reduced emissions significantly over the last decade. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Port is a much cleaner area than it was ten, fifteen years ago,” Brandes said. “We’re going to continue to drive down to zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said construction material from the project will also help the city of Oakland meet its housing development goals while boosting revenue for the Port. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmentalists argued in their lawsuit that the project put residents at risk by storing construction aggregates in stockpiles as high as 25 feet, holding as much as 329,000 tons each, “with no covering to block wind or rain, allowing dust and particulates to blow off the site or run off the piles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not cover the material that would blow out the port area, but we did get them to develop a plan to water it down so the particulates will not be generated through the port area,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the lawsuit brought necessary attention to concerns about the project’s impact on the community, and forced that conversation. The lawsuit also requires the Port or Eagle Rock to hold an educational session for the community regarding the aggregate terminal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the settlement. They have to come out and talk to us,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta had also joined the lawsuit over his concerns about the Port’s environmental analysis of the project, noting that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is required to reduce air pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said in \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-protect-environmental-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement that the settlement secured binding commitments\u003c/a> to mitigate the Eagle Rock project’s air quality impacts and provide other benefits for West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded. The Bureau of Environmental Justice within my office exists to right those wrongs, and today is proof that our efforts are making a positive difference,” Bonta said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Attorney General Rob Bonta","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Residents in West Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood, are already breathing air that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood\">contains high levels of toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a>. They face higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease, premature death and other poor health outcomes related to air pollution than other parts of the region, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/owning-our-air-plan-summary-pdf.pdf\">according to state air officials (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, meanwhile, is caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/08/oaklands-long-running-coal-war-goes-to-trial-with-developers-pitted-against-the-city/\">legal fight\u003c/a> with a developer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/07/11/trial-begins-in-oakland-coal-fight/\">who has sought to build an export terminal at the old West Oakland Army Base located at the port.\u003c/a> Gordon’s group have pressed back on that project as well in an effort to prevent the transport of coal through their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups have \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/01/oakland-environmentalists-say-airport-expansion-bad-pollution-climate/\">also raised concern\u003c/a> about the Port’s plan to expand the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Eagle Rock project, Brian Beveridge, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, said the group will continue to keep an eye on whether the Port is keeping its part of the deal, and will keep residents informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in a neighborhood [cannot] spend their life trying to keep an eye on whether a gravel terminal is doing the right thing or not,” Beveridge said. “And so we try to serve that role and help. When there’s something the community needs to think about, we make sure they know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1984443/after-final-vote-open-air-gravel-plant-appears-headed-to-oaklands-port","authors":["11635"],"categories":["science_35","science_39","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_192","science_1754","science_4417","science_4414","science_3532"],"featImg":"science_1984452","label":"source_science_1984443"},"science_1980255":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1980255","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1980255","score":null,"sort":[1663074086000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-lesson-in-discrimination-a-toxic-sea-level-rise-crisis-threatens-west-oakland","title":"'A Lesson in Discrimination': A Toxic Sea Level Rise Crisis Threatens West Oakland","publishDate":1663074086,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘A Lesson in Discrimination’: A Toxic Sea Level Rise Crisis Threatens West Oakland | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s series “Sacrifice Zones: Bay Area Shoreline Communities Reimagining Their Homes in the Face of the Climate Emergency.” The project looks at communities of color facing the worst of rising seas and fighting to thrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more of KQED’s reparations coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toxic waste lurking in the soil under West Oakland neighborhoods is the next environmental threat in this community already burdened by pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stability of buried contamination from Oakland’s industrial past relies on it staying in place in the soil. But once the rising waters of San Francisco Bay press inland and get underneath these pockets of chemicals and gases, a certain amount of that waste will not stay in place. Instead, it will begin to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 sites — colorless gases in dirt under schools, flammable chemicals buried in shallow soil near parks, petroleum in pockets of groundwater from iron manufacturing — lie in wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' citation='Margaret Gordon, founder, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project']‘There’s tons of pollutants, or toxics, in the ground. You cannot put up a garden without having your soil tested.’[/pullquote]Human-caused climate change is already forcing this groundwater rise in West Oakland and other parts of the Bay Area. UC Berkeley and UCLA scientists warn that plumes of waste will migrate underground along unpredictable pathways, exposing communities of color to contamination decades before floods gush over the industrial shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are environmental health issues that need to be addressed now,” said UC Berkeley’s Rachel Morello-Frosch, a lead researcher with \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toxic Tides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span> a project that maps contamination in the path of sea level rise across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toxic waste and pollution in West Oakland are a result of the legacy of racism in housing, economic and other policies over decades. Residents didn’t consent to living in these conditions. Now they’re demanding to be significant players in any climate resilience plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a park bench in front of her second-story apartment, Margaret Gordon, a 75-year-old Black woman with a powerful legacy of environmental advocacy, said the threat from underground toxics only adds to the neighborhood’s severe environmental hardships. Across the Bay Area and, in fact, the world, climate change disproportionately affects communities of color like West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='science_1979614']Wearing a gold-flecked denim baseball cap and a long navy skirt, Gordon described how three freeways box in the roughly 23,000 people living in this industrial landscape, three-quarters of them people of color living with the strain of low wages, high housing costs and the poor health that comes from increased exposure to pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s tons of pollutants, or toxics, in the ground,” Gordon said as a BART train zipped by and a line of semi trucks spewed fumes on the way to the Port of Oakland. “You cannot put up a garden without having your soil tested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon founded the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project to demand environmental justice for people of color here. It’s not surprising that West Oakland is one of the Bay Area cities most at risk from groundwater rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still comes down to race,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view from the water of high-rise buildings beneath a pale blue sky. Along the waterfront are piles of scrap metal and industrial pipes. Between the scrap metal and the water is an embankment of rock. In the distant background are wooded hills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland can be seen behind piles of scrap metal at a manufacturing facility at the Port of Oakland on March 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a resident of a historically Black community, Gordon sees climate justice as a form of reparations, a payment in money and services to repair the harm of conscious decisions, such as government leaders allowing toxic industries to operate in the neighborhood, devaluing the lives of Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reparation movement is the next level of civil rights,” said Gordon. “We should not be in a position of just surviving. We should be thriving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dangerous game of inches\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the northernmost edge of the neighborhood, about a half-mile from San Francisco Bay, a row of new, charcoal-gray and white condominiums rise above a black iron fence and a border of trees. Nearby, traffic zooms along Interstate 880, and a historic train station — also a contaminated site — speaks to the city’s industrial past.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report.asp?global_id=T10000007358\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1880, the Oakland shoreline ran through this section\u003c/span>\u003c/a> before infill expanded the landscape, according to the State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area, like most of West Oakland, is flat. Between these homes and the bay are at least three hazardous sites — including a partially cleaned-up old Army base and water treatment plant — contaminated with petroleum, volatile organic compounds and other industrial waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='left' citation='Kristina Hill, UC Berkeley Institute for Urban and Regional Development']‘There are going to be real health risks.’[/pullquote]Gordon said these homes could “be the first victims of sea level rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in West Oakland largely don’t understand that this looming disaster is under their feet because, according to Gordon, they have enough to do simply to meet their basic needs. \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FINAL_Baseline-Report.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The median annual income for Black West Oakland residents is about $30,000, a third of the median income that white people earn in the neighborhood\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, according to Oakland’s Race and Equity Baseline Indicators Report from 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California climate policy measures sea level rise in feet. \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entire Bay Area shorelines could be swamped by 10.1 feet of brackish water\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by 2100 in extreme scenarios, according to an assessment the state conducted in 2017. But scientists say it won’t take feet to loosen toxic contaminants in West Oakland’s soil and render them dangerous to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As bay waters rise and threaten flooding over the land, it presses a layer of salty water in under the land. This salty water seeps in below the existing groundwater, pushing it upward until, at some point, it touches contaminated soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='science_1979645,news_11804007']Groundwater rise, then,\u003c/span> is a dangerous game of inches, according to Kristina Hill, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. Very subtle changes to the shallow groundwater can pressure and crack sewer pipes, while chemicals can corrode them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As contaminants begin to move, they can spread toxics already in the soil, releasing poisonous gases that flow in and around these pipes. Those gases can enter homes, schools and businesses through cracked plumbing seals, poisoning residents. Methane, a gas that’s released when petroleum products break down, can even explode with an errant spark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be real health risks,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>West Oakland hazardous sites and sea level rise in 2100\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Click the arrow to view the map legend. Use your mouse to move the map. Use the + and – signs to zoom in and out. Click on the dots to view details. Click on the magnifying glass to search for a specific address. Areas marked by circles show the impact of rising seas and groundwater together, while squares show groundwater impacts only. Sources: Climate Central, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USGS, CA Department of Toxic Substances Control, State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=bae696b261554d28ac6b85e680f1d3de&extent=-122.3404,37.7669,-122.2468,37.8439&home=true&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&details=true&legend=true&active_panel=legend&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland got a glimpse of this in 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/19027\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the Oakland Unified School District shut down McClymonds High School for a week\u003c/span>\u003c/a> after officials found trichloroethylene, a cancer-causing chemical, in the groundwater under the school. Officials were concerned the chemicals could vaporize and waft into the air that students and teachers were breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and county officials confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/contaminated-groundwater-shuts-down-mcclymonds-high-in-oakland/2237816/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the contaminants possibly came from the five active cleanup sites\u003c/span>\u003c/a> within half a mile of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the kind of situation that’s going to occur,” Hill said. “It’s exacerbated by a rising water table. We could find mystery plumes in lots of places that weren’t being tracked and that suddenly show up under the cracked concrete slab floor of a high school. That’s what I worry about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980284\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a wide strip of pavement with a long line of semi-trucks on the right side. In the distance ahead are cranes at the Port of Oakland. Puffy clouds hover in the pale blue sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks line up to receive their freight at the Port of Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What does cleanup mean now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are 138 contaminated sites in West Oakland — junkyards, dry cleaners, auto shops and even a former ice cream factory — that either have never been cleaned up, or are in some state of active remediation, according to a KQED analysis of hazardous sites in online catalogs maintained by the state through its water board and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the hazardous sites, 82 are under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is well aware of the compounding issues of toxics in soil and groundwater rise, Alec Naugle, the board’s toxics cleanup manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to break those 82 sites down, look at those various scenarios, and then, using our enforcement authority, direct specific actions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' citation='Margaretta Lin, UC Berkeley Future Histories Lab']‘They didn’t have consent about what kind of industries were going to go where, right? They didn’t have consent about where freeways were going to be developed. All that came about because of racism and the lack of political power.’[/pullquote]Actions could include accelerating cleanups by 10 to 20 years and imposing stricter conditions for cleanup. Naugle said his team has sent letters to some landowners who need to factor in groundwater rise in cleanup plans. The agency rejected one application for a “cleaned up” status at a former petroleum refinery close to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denying closure to a property owner who needs that to maybe sell the property becomes a really important, powerful tool that we can use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is also partnering with Pathways Climate Institute and the San Francisco Estuary Institute to forecast how groundwater will move into low-lying areas of Alameda, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. That research is slated to be released in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='science_1979092']In an emailed statement, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, or DTSC, said it couldn’t comment on the number or severity of active sites. The agency said it is developing guidance for sites and project managers “to ensure that remedies at contaminated sites are resilient now and into the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DTSC director Meredith Williams said in an interview that the agency is prioritizing the places with the heaviest environmental burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are, for instance, abandoned dry cleaners all over the state,” she said. “They’ve led to groundwater plumes of solvents, and we’re identifying where our opportunities are to clean up those sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='left' citation='Phoenix Armenta, Shoreline Leadership Academy']‘In Oakland, where there has been redlining is exactly where all the toxic sites are.’[/pullquote]Williams said her staff has had some racial equity training to begin understanding why environmental justice matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our staff really don’t understand what the communities are like. They don’t understand the impacts of redlining,” she said. “These are things that, once people understand them, can lead to empathy for what it is that these communities are experiencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dumping ground’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>West Oakland became an industrial powerhouse some 150 years ago when the transcontinental railroad ended its long journey at this edge of the bay. Over time, shipbuilding, metal foundries and manufacturing filled the small corner of Oakland, followed later by gas stations, dry cleaners and auto yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racist home-lending policies such as redlining relegated Black people to this neighborhood, preventing them from seeking housing outside the industrialized area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Oakland, where there has been redlining is exactly where all the toxic sites are,” said Phoenix Armenta, who is mixed-race and the regional resilience manager with the environmental group Gordon runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing stripes, a mask and gardening gloves carries a large while walking in a marsh ecosystem. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix Armenta collects weeds during a community habitat restoration day at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline on March 31, 2022.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/social-health-equity/docs/unnatcs2008.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black people born in West Oakland are likely to die 15 years earlier than white people born in the Oakland hills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span> according to a 2008 health assessment from the Alameda County Public Health Department. They’re also five times more likely to be hospitalized for diabetes, three times more likely to die of stroke and twice as likely to die of cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland has been the economic engine of the city, yet residents are victims of racist policies that expose them to life-threatening environmental pollution without their consent, said Dorothy Lazard, a Black woman who grew up in the neighborhood and retired last year as the managing librarian of the Oakland History Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a lesson in discrimination, disregard and diminishment of a population that helped build the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435002748820&view=1up&seq=5\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">West Oakland was named among the city’s top blighted areas\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in an Oakland Planning Commission study. The authors wrote that neighborhoods like West Oakland were “grim” and “ugly” because of deteriorating buildings, overcrowding and limited housing. Local and federal policies worsened the blight, Lazard said, by seizing land through eminent domain and destroying homes and businesses for freeways, public housing and a BART station. The government-sanctioned actions conspicuously decimated a historic Black neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980281\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image is of the inside of a card with many handwritten notes thinking the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and Margaret Gordon for her work on environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank-you notes to Margaret Gordon and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project line a bookshelf at the West Oakland office on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Claiming things through eminent domain is commensurate with colonialism,” Lazard said. “It’s like saying we can use this as our dumping ground because we’ve already devalued this space and the people within this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racism inherent in those decisions makes West Oakland a fairly typical community of color, where financial gain is “pitted against the needs of the people,” Margaretta Lin \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/From_the_Art_of_War_to_Being_Peace__Mindfulness_and_Community_Law.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote in a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">critical history of West Oakland\u003c/span>\u003c/a> published in 2007. “The rules of the game have been structured in such a technocratic and legalistic way that community voices are rarely consulted or heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin teaches racial justice in planning and public policy at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning, and its Future Histories Lab. In an interview, she said West Oakland residents didn’t approve of the policies that negatively affect their lives and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have consent about what kind of industries were going to go where, right?” she said. “They didn’t have consent about where freeways were going to be developed. All that came about because of racism and the lack of political power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11922784']Today, housing prices are soaring in West Oakland, and new construction peppers the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Demographically, things are changing, and you can buy a million-dollar house in West Oakland, which never had happened before when it was predominantly African American,” Lazard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Schwarzer, who wrote “Hella Town,” a book on the history of Oakland, said the city needs to preserve a large percentage of housing for residents who have lived in West Oakland for decades. But, he said, that means Oakland leaders must grapple with tough questions about prioritizing people of color who have been “subject to real egregious damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make sure that those people don’t get screwed over a second time?” he said. “That’s really what we’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Let’s talk about reparations’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The racism that shaped the economic and community life of West Oakland persists, according to Brandi T. Summers, a UC Berkeley geography professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so present that we can’t ignore it,” she said. “We can’t believe that we can extract race from this conversation at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “equity” has emerged as a dominant force for change at every policy level. Equity, however, isn’t a word Gordon uses to describe what’s needed for climate justice in West Oakland, because it’s not big enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t talk to me about equity anymore,” she said. “Let’s talk about reparations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909471/unpacking-reparations-eligibility-in-california\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state task force on reparations\u003c/span>\u003c/a> is studying ways to repair the harm that emanates from enslavement and post-emancipation systemic racism. For Gordon, reparations recommendations should include cleaning up toxic sites, access to affordable housing, better health care, economic opportunities and power in planning decisions about climate resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have long-standing sustainability,” she said. “I would know there’s going to be housing for my children and grandchildren, so there’ll be a job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a street party with Black people mingling and sitting at tables covered with white cloths. There are various beverages on the table. A man on a horse leans in to talk with the people. He's wearing blue jeans, a light blue cotton shirt and a pale cream cowboy hat. Behind the people is a white bouncy house. In the background of the photo is a cream-colored church with a tall, pointed tower.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister and his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, ride through a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Women of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reparations would also mean environmental justice, says Rev. Ken Chambers, a third-generation pastor currently leading the West Side Missionary Baptist Church in a small, tan rectangular building in the southwest corner of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community with fresh breathing air, not consumed by diesel truck traffic, ship traffic, smog” could develop green-tech jobs that pay good wages and also help the environment, according to Chambers, who is Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reparations that bolster the local economy, improve air quality and raise overall health could equal potential freedom from the tendrils of enslavement even as the climate emergency worsens, said Maya Carrasquillo, a UC Berkeley environmental engineering professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The full freedom to say, ‘I can leave or I can stay,'” she said. “Or, ‘I have the freedom, the values and the finances to be able to make the future I want.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pollution in West Oakland is a result of the legacy of racism in housing, economic and other policies over decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846193,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":65,"wordCount":3055},"headData":{"title":"'A Lesson in Discrimination': A Toxic Sea Level Rise Crisis Threatens West Oakland | KQED","description":"Pollution in West Oakland is a result of the legacy of racism in housing, economic and other policies over decades.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"'A Lesson in Discrimination': A Toxic Sea Level Rise Crisis Threatens West Oakland","datePublished":"2022-09-13T13:01:26.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:23:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Climate Change","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/7968b78d-4243-4613-8779-af0e011896b3/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1980255/a-lesson-in-discrimination-a-toxic-sea-level-rise-crisis-threatens-west-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of KQED’s series “Sacrifice Zones: Bay Area Shoreline Communities Reimagining Their Homes in the Face of the Climate Emergency.” The project looks at communities of color facing the worst of rising seas and fighting to thrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more of KQED’s reparations coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toxic waste lurking in the soil under West Oakland neighborhoods is the next environmental threat in this community already burdened by pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stability of buried contamination from Oakland’s industrial past relies on it staying in place in the soil. But once the rising waters of San Francisco Bay press inland and get underneath these pockets of chemicals and gases, a certain amount of that waste will not stay in place. Instead, it will begin to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 sites — colorless gases in dirt under schools, flammable chemicals buried in shallow soil near parks, petroleum in pockets of groundwater from iron manufacturing — lie in wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s tons of pollutants, or toxics, in the ground. You cannot put up a garden without having your soil tested.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","citation":"Margaret Gordon, founder, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Human-caused climate change is already forcing this groundwater rise in West Oakland and other parts of the Bay Area. UC Berkeley and UCLA scientists warn that plumes of waste will migrate underground along unpredictable pathways, exposing communities of color to contamination decades before floods gush over the industrial shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are environmental health issues that need to be addressed now,” said UC Berkeley’s Rachel Morello-Frosch, a lead researcher with \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toxic Tides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span> a project that maps contamination in the path of sea level rise across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toxic waste and pollution in West Oakland are a result of the legacy of racism in housing, economic and other policies over decades. Residents didn’t consent to living in these conditions. Now they’re demanding to be significant players in any climate resilience plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a park bench in front of her second-story apartment, Margaret Gordon, a 75-year-old Black woman with a powerful legacy of environmental advocacy, said the threat from underground toxics only adds to the neighborhood’s severe environmental hardships. Across the Bay Area and, in fact, the world, climate change disproportionately affects communities of color like West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1979614","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wearing a gold-flecked denim baseball cap and a long navy skirt, Gordon described how three freeways box in the roughly 23,000 people living in this industrial landscape, three-quarters of them people of color living with the strain of low wages, high housing costs and the poor health that comes from increased exposure to pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s tons of pollutants, or toxics, in the ground,” Gordon said as a BART train zipped by and a line of semi trucks spewed fumes on the way to the Port of Oakland. “You cannot put up a garden without having your soil tested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon founded the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project to demand environmental justice for people of color here. It’s not surprising that West Oakland is one of the Bay Area cities most at risk from groundwater rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still comes down to race,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view from the water of high-rise buildings beneath a pale blue sky. Along the waterfront are piles of scrap metal and industrial pipes. Between the scrap metal and the water is an embankment of rock. In the distant background are wooded hills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/004_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Oakland can be seen behind piles of scrap metal at a manufacturing facility at the Port of Oakland on March 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a resident of a historically Black community, Gordon sees climate justice as a form of reparations, a payment in money and services to repair the harm of conscious decisions, such as government leaders allowing toxic industries to operate in the neighborhood, devaluing the lives of Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reparation movement is the next level of civil rights,” said Gordon. “We should not be in a position of just surviving. We should be thriving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A dangerous game of inches\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the northernmost edge of the neighborhood, about a half-mile from San Francisco Bay, a row of new, charcoal-gray and white condominiums rise above a black iron fence and a border of trees. Nearby, traffic zooms along Interstate 880, and a historic train station — also a contaminated site — speaks to the city’s industrial past.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report.asp?global_id=T10000007358\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1880, the Oakland shoreline ran through this section\u003c/span>\u003c/a> before infill expanded the landscape, according to the State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area, like most of West Oakland, is flat. Between these homes and the bay are at least three hazardous sites — including a partially cleaned-up old Army base and water treatment plant — contaminated with petroleum, volatile organic compounds and other industrial waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are going to be real health risks.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"left","citation":"Kristina Hill, UC Berkeley Institute for Urban and Regional Development","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gordon said these homes could “be the first victims of sea level rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in West Oakland largely don’t understand that this looming disaster is under their feet because, according to Gordon, they have enough to do simply to meet their basic needs. \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FINAL_Baseline-Report.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The median annual income for Black West Oakland residents is about $30,000, a third of the median income that white people earn in the neighborhood\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, according to Oakland’s Race and Equity Baseline Indicators Report from 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California climate policy measures sea level rise in feet. \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entire Bay Area shorelines could be swamped by 10.1 feet of brackish water\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by 2100 in extreme scenarios, according to an assessment the state conducted in 2017. But scientists say it won’t take feet to loosen toxic contaminants in West Oakland’s soil and render them dangerous to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As bay waters rise and threaten flooding over the land, it presses a layer of salty water in under the land. This salty water seeps in below the existing groundwater, pushing it upward until, at some point, it touches contaminated soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1979645,news_11804007","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Groundwater rise, then,\u003c/span> is a dangerous game of inches, according to Kristina Hill, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. Very subtle changes to the shallow groundwater can pressure and crack sewer pipes, while chemicals can corrode them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As contaminants begin to move, they can spread toxics already in the soil, releasing poisonous gases that flow in and around these pipes. Those gases can enter homes, schools and businesses through cracked plumbing seals, poisoning residents. Methane, a gas that’s released when petroleum products break down, can even explode with an errant spark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be real health risks,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>West Oakland hazardous sites and sea level rise in 2100\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">\u003cem>Click the arrow to view the map legend. Use your mouse to move the map. Use the + and – signs to zoom in and out. Click on the dots to view details. Click on the magnifying glass to search for a specific address. Areas marked by circles show the impact of rising seas and groundwater together, while squares show groundwater impacts only. Sources: Climate Central, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USGS, CA Department of Toxic Substances Control, State Water Resources Control Board.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=bae696b261554d28ac6b85e680f1d3de&extent=-122.3404,37.7669,-122.2468,37.8439&home=true&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&details=true&legend=true&active_panel=legend&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland got a glimpse of this in 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/Page/19027\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the Oakland Unified School District shut down McClymonds High School for a week\u003c/span>\u003c/a> after officials found trichloroethylene, a cancer-causing chemical, in the groundwater under the school. Officials were concerned the chemicals could vaporize and waft into the air that students and teachers were breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and county officials confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/contaminated-groundwater-shuts-down-mcclymonds-high-in-oakland/2237816/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the contaminants possibly came from the five active cleanup sites\u003c/span>\u003c/a> within half a mile of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the kind of situation that’s going to occur,” Hill said. “It’s exacerbated by a rising water table. We could find mystery plumes in lots of places that weren’t being tracked and that suddenly show up under the cracked concrete slab floor of a high school. That’s what I worry about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980284\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a wide strip of pavement with a long line of semi-trucks on the right side. In the distance ahead are cranes at the Port of Oakland. Puffy clouds hover in the pale blue sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/025_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks line up to receive their freight at the Port of Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What does cleanup mean now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are 138 contaminated sites in West Oakland — junkyards, dry cleaners, auto shops and even a former ice cream factory — that either have never been cleaned up, or are in some state of active remediation, according to a KQED analysis of hazardous sites in online catalogs maintained by the state through its water board and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the hazardous sites, 82 are under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is well aware of the compounding issues of toxics in soil and groundwater rise, Alec Naugle, the board’s toxics cleanup manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to break those 82 sites down, look at those various scenarios, and then, using our enforcement authority, direct specific actions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They didn’t have consent about what kind of industries were going to go where, right? They didn’t have consent about where freeways were going to be developed. All that came about because of racism and the lack of political power.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","citation":"Margaretta Lin, UC Berkeley Future Histories Lab","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Actions could include accelerating cleanups by 10 to 20 years and imposing stricter conditions for cleanup. Naugle said his team has sent letters to some landowners who need to factor in groundwater rise in cleanup plans. The agency rejected one application for a “cleaned up” status at a former petroleum refinery close to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denying closure to a property owner who needs that to maybe sell the property becomes a really important, powerful tool that we can use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is also partnering with Pathways Climate Institute and the San Francisco Estuary Institute to forecast how groundwater will move into low-lying areas of Alameda, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. That research is slated to be released in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1979092","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, or DTSC, said it couldn’t comment on the number or severity of active sites. The agency said it is developing guidance for sites and project managers “to ensure that remedies at contaminated sites are resilient now and into the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DTSC director Meredith Williams said in an interview that the agency is prioritizing the places with the heaviest environmental burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are, for instance, abandoned dry cleaners all over the state,” she said. “They’ve led to groundwater plumes of solvents, and we’re identifying where our opportunities are to clean up those sites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘In Oakland, where there has been redlining is exactly where all the toxic sites are.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"left","citation":"Phoenix Armenta, Shoreline Leadership Academy","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Williams said her staff has had some racial equity training to begin understanding why environmental justice matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our staff really don’t understand what the communities are like. They don’t understand the impacts of redlining,” she said. “These are things that, once people understand them, can lead to empathy for what it is that these communities are experiencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dumping ground’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>West Oakland became an industrial powerhouse some 150 years ago when the transcontinental railroad ended its long journey at this edge of the bay. Over time, shipbuilding, metal foundries and manufacturing filled the small corner of Oakland, followed later by gas stations, dry cleaners and auto yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racist home-lending policies such as redlining relegated Black people to this neighborhood, preventing them from seeking housing outside the industrialized area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Oakland, where there has been redlining is exactly where all the toxic sites are,” said Phoenix Armenta, who is mixed-race and the regional resilience manager with the environmental group Gordon runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1980295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing stripes, a mask and gardening gloves carries a large while walking in a marsh ecosystem. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/RS55353_20220402_OaklandShorelineAcademy-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix Armenta collects weeds during a community habitat restoration day at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline on March 31, 2022.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://acphd-web-media.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/data-reports/social-health-equity/docs/unnatcs2008.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black people born in West Oakland are likely to die 15 years earlier than white people born in the Oakland hills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span> according to a 2008 health assessment from the Alameda County Public Health Department. They’re also five times more likely to be hospitalized for diabetes, three times more likely to die of stroke and twice as likely to die of cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland has been the economic engine of the city, yet residents are victims of racist policies that expose them to life-threatening environmental pollution without their consent, said Dorothy Lazard, a Black woman who grew up in the neighborhood and retired last year as the managing librarian of the Oakland History Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a lesson in discrimination, disregard and diminishment of a population that helped build the city,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435002748820&view=1up&seq=5\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">West Oakland was named among the city’s top blighted areas\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in an Oakland Planning Commission study. The authors wrote that neighborhoods like West Oakland were “grim” and “ugly” because of deteriorating buildings, overcrowding and limited housing. Local and federal policies worsened the blight, Lazard said, by seizing land through eminent domain and destroying homes and businesses for freeways, public housing and a BART station. The government-sanctioned actions conspicuously decimated a historic Black neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980281\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image is of the inside of a card with many handwritten notes thinking the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and Margaret Gordon for her work on environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/005_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank-you notes to Margaret Gordon and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project line a bookshelf at the West Oakland office on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Claiming things through eminent domain is commensurate with colonialism,” Lazard said. “It’s like saying we can use this as our dumping ground because we’ve already devalued this space and the people within this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racism inherent in those decisions makes West Oakland a fairly typical community of color, where financial gain is “pitted against the needs of the people,” Margaretta Lin \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/From_the_Art_of_War_to_Being_Peace__Mindfulness_and_Community_Law.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote in a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">critical history of West Oakland\u003c/span>\u003c/a> published in 2007. “The rules of the game have been structured in such a technocratic and legalistic way that community voices are rarely consulted or heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin teaches racial justice in planning and public policy at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning, and its Future Histories Lab. In an interview, she said West Oakland residents didn’t approve of the policies that negatively affect their lives and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have consent about what kind of industries were going to go where, right?” she said. “They didn’t have consent about where freeways were going to be developed. All that came about because of racism and the lack of political power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11922784","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, housing prices are soaring in West Oakland, and new construction peppers the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Demographically, things are changing, and you can buy a million-dollar house in West Oakland, which never had happened before when it was predominantly African American,” Lazard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell Schwarzer, who wrote “Hella Town,” a book on the history of Oakland, said the city needs to preserve a large percentage of housing for residents who have lived in West Oakland for decades. But, he said, that means Oakland leaders must grapple with tough questions about prioritizing people of color who have been “subject to real egregious damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you make sure that those people don’t get screwed over a second time?” he said. “That’s really what we’re talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Let’s talk about reparations’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The racism that shaped the economic and community life of West Oakland persists, according to Brandi T. Summers, a UC Berkeley geography professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so present that we can’t ignore it,” she said. “We can’t believe that we can extract race from this conversation at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “equity” has emerged as a dominant force for change at every policy level. Equity, however, isn’t a word Gordon uses to describe what’s needed for climate justice in West Oakland, because it’s not big enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t talk to me about equity anymore,” she said. “Let’s talk about reparations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909471/unpacking-reparations-eligibility-in-california\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state task force on reparations\u003c/span>\u003c/a> is studying ways to repair the harm that emanates from enslavement and post-emancipation systemic racism. For Gordon, reparations recommendations should include cleaning up toxic sites, access to affordable housing, better health care, economic opportunities and power in planning decisions about climate resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have long-standing sustainability,” she said. “I would know there’s going to be housing for my children and grandchildren, so there’ll be a job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1980286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1980286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a street party with Black people mingling and sitting at tables covered with white cloths. There are various beverages on the table. A man on a horse leans in to talk with the people. He's wearing blue jeans, a light blue cotton shirt and a pale cream cowboy hat. Behind the people is a white bouncy house. In the background of the photo is a cream-colored church with a tall, pointed tower.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/09/028_Oakland_JuneteenthBBPMuseum_06192021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donnell McAlister and his horse JJ, named after Jesse James, ride through a Juneteenth block party to celebrate the opening of the Women of the Black Panther Party Mini Museum in West Oakland on June 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reparations would also mean environmental justice, says Rev. Ken Chambers, a third-generation pastor currently leading the West Side Missionary Baptist Church in a small, tan rectangular building in the southwest corner of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community with fresh breathing air, not consumed by diesel truck traffic, ship traffic, smog” could develop green-tech jobs that pay good wages and also help the environment, according to Chambers, who is Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reparations that bolster the local economy, improve air quality and raise overall health could equal potential freedom from the tendrils of enslavement even as the climate emergency worsens, said Maya Carrasquillo, a UC Berkeley environmental engineering professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The full freedom to say, ‘I can leave or I can stay,'” she said. “Or, ‘I have the freedom, the values and the finances to be able to make the future I want.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1980255/a-lesson-in-discrimination-a-toxic-sea-level-rise-crisis-threatens-west-oakland","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_2873","science_43","science_4450","science_98"],"tags":["science_182","science_4417","science_4414","science_4859","science_206","science_3532"],"featImg":"science_1980293","label":"source_science_1980255"},"science_1962832":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1962832","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1962832","score":null,"sort":[1588114686000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood","title":"West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What's Changed, What Hasn't in the Neighborhood","publishDate":1588114686,"format":"image","headTitle":"West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What’s Changed, What Hasn’t in the Neighborhood | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>In the early 1990s, West Oakland resident Ms. Margaret Gordon, as she likes to be called, worked at the neighborhood elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was in the nurse’s office, something caught her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to see all these inhalers in shoeboxes and a basket with the kids’ names on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhood children had asthma, the nurse told her. Ms. Gordon had also noticed that same health condition, for both children and adults, coming up in meeting after meeting in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wondered if these respiratory issues had to do with all the trucks rolling daily through the neighborhood, heading in and out of the Port of Oakland. They literally left their mark on the inside of her home, where she would see streaks of “black soot on my windowsill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question prompted Gordon to embark on a decades-long effort to clean up the environmental toxins around her, co-founding an organization called the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, West Oakland has been the location of heavy industry and discriminatory policies such as \u003ca href=\"https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=12/37.811/-122.312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining. \u003c/a>This history has resulted in West Oakland residents, primarily people of color, being exposed to more pollution than other neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air in West Oakland contains some of the highest levels of \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a> in the region. The California Environmental Protection Agency has designated the area as a “\u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/04/SB-535-Designation-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disadvantaged community\u003c/a>,” meaning it’s disproportionately burdened by pollution that can lead to negative health impacts. West Oakland has \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/final-plan-vol-1-100219-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease and premature death\u003c/a> related to air pollution than other places in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day last week, KQED asked Gordon and her colleagues in the environmental justice movement to reflect on the changes they’ve seen in their time fighting for a cleaner West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Beveridge, a colleague of Gordon’s, says the community has learned different political strategies over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the 1989 Loma-Prieta earthquake, the Cypress Freeway bisected West Oakland, dividing the neighborhood and subjecting the community to the pollution that comes with a heavily used highway. When the freeway was damaged in the quake, the community lobbied to rebuild it in an area to the west, rejoining the divided streets. “Community members came in the room and fought for what they needed against the big agencies,” including Caltrans, Beveridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past several decades, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and other grassroots efforts have threatened lawsuits and brought actions against the city and Port of Oakland, including a 2017 civil rights \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/2017-04-04-TitleVI_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint\u003c/a> about what activists called disregard for the health of West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beveridge said that through the years the group “realized we can’t just sue all the time. We have to find a way to have a dialogue and change the dynamic of the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his group now works more collaboratively with government and private groups, and that the attitude of these larger organizations toward West Oakland residents has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These institutions have begun to realize that the residents have an intrinsic knowledge of their own environment. We are now treated as peers by experts and Ph.D.s and scientists,” Beveridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the Beginning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Arnold of Oakland nonprofit Urban Releaf says Gordon and others started engaging in environmental justice work in the 1990s, back before it was well-known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing environmental work on people and communities, instead of nature and conservation, “was kind of a radical idea,” Arnold said. “But now, thanks to the work of activists and advocates, there is substantial policy, substantial legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold cited the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 32\u003c/a>, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, as a watershed moment. The bill, which requires the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, called for an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee to advise the state in implementing the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming the movement like that “codified it” and “set a baseline for environmental justice,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big development in the movement came in 2012, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 535\u003c/a> into law, requiring the investment of cap-and-trade revenues in disadvantaged communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold said the activism in the Bay Area helped push some of these measures through. “West and East Oakland had been some of the meccas for the environmental justice movement, not just in California, but the entire country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also credited Gordon’s work for pushing the state to collect and share data on pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project has also participated in gathering data independently from the state, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/pollution-and-health-concerns-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a partnership\u003c/a> with the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Defense Fund\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://aclima.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aclima\u003c/a> and the University of Texas at Austin. The project, which attached Aclima sensors to Google Street View cars, measured nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon — pollutants that come from car exhaust. In June 2017, the results were \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Environmental Science & Technology. \u003c/em>The findings showed that air pollution varied widely within neighborhoods and individual blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the Port of Oakland reported that diesel particulate emissions were down 81% from 2005. But Ms. Margaret Gordon said health has not improved by a commensurate amount, and the gains have not been enough to combat decades of pollution in West Oakland’s air, soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Gordon got into this fight because of health. These days, she’d like to see some new data. “How many people still have ended up in the hospital?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While pollution in communities of color remains disproportionate, advocates say the way they fight has changed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847511,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":965},"headData":{"title":"West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What's Changed, What Hasn't in the Neighborhood | KQED","description":"While pollution in communities of color remains disproportionate, advocates say the way they fight has changed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What's Changed, What Hasn't in the Neighborhood","datePublished":"2020-04-28T22:58:06.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:45:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/122ea4b5-7dd4-4454-9bf9-abaa0121d5b9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood","audioDuration":184000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the early 1990s, West Oakland resident Ms. Margaret Gordon, as she likes to be called, worked at the neighborhood elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was in the nurse’s office, something caught her attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to see all these inhalers in shoeboxes and a basket with the kids’ names on it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the neighborhood children had asthma, the nurse told her. Ms. Gordon had also noticed that same health condition, for both children and adults, coming up in meeting after meeting in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wondered if these respiratory issues had to do with all the trucks rolling daily through the neighborhood, heading in and out of the Port of Oakland. They literally left their mark on the inside of her home, where she would see streaks of “black soot on my windowsill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question prompted Gordon to embark on a decades-long effort to clean up the environmental toxins around her, co-founding an organization called the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, West Oakland has been the location of heavy industry and discriminatory policies such as \u003ca href=\"https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=12/37.811/-122.312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">redlining. \u003c/a>This history has resulted in West Oakland residents, primarily people of color, being exposed to more pollution than other neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air in West Oakland contains some of the highest levels of \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a> in the region. The California Environmental Protection Agency has designated the area as a “\u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/04/SB-535-Designation-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disadvantaged community\u003c/a>,” meaning it’s disproportionately burdened by pollution that can lead to negative health impacts. West Oakland has \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/final-plan-vol-1-100219-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease and premature death\u003c/a> related to air pollution than other places in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day last week, KQED asked Gordon and her colleagues in the environmental justice movement to reflect on the changes they’ve seen in their time fighting for a cleaner West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Beveridge, a colleague of Gordon’s, says the community has learned different political strategies over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the 1989 Loma-Prieta earthquake, the Cypress Freeway bisected West Oakland, dividing the neighborhood and subjecting the community to the pollution that comes with a heavily used highway. When the freeway was damaged in the quake, the community lobbied to rebuild it in an area to the west, rejoining the divided streets. “Community members came in the room and fought for what they needed against the big agencies,” including Caltrans, Beveridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past several decades, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and other grassroots efforts have threatened lawsuits and brought actions against the city and Port of Oakland, including a 2017 civil rights \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/2017-04-04-TitleVI_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint\u003c/a> about what activists called disregard for the health of West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beveridge said that through the years the group “realized we can’t just sue all the time. We have to find a way to have a dialogue and change the dynamic of the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his group now works more collaboratively with government and private groups, and that the attitude of these larger organizations toward West Oakland residents has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These institutions have begun to realize that the residents have an intrinsic knowledge of their own environment. We are now treated as peers by experts and Ph.D.s and scientists,” Beveridge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the Beginning\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Arnold of Oakland nonprofit Urban Releaf says Gordon and others started engaging in environmental justice work in the 1990s, back before it was well-known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing environmental work on people and communities, instead of nature and conservation, “was kind of a radical idea,” Arnold said. “But now, thanks to the work of activists and advocates, there is substantial policy, substantial legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold cited the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 32\u003c/a>, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, as a watershed moment. The bill, which requires the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, called for an Environmental Justice Advisory Committee to advise the state in implementing the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming the movement like that “codified it” and “set a baseline for environmental justice,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big development in the movement came in 2012, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 535\u003c/a> into law, requiring the investment of cap-and-trade revenues in disadvantaged communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold said the activism in the Bay Area helped push some of these measures through. “West and East Oakland had been some of the meccas for the environmental justice movement, not just in California, but the entire country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also credited Gordon’s work for pushing the state to collect and share data on pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project has also participated in gathering data independently from the state, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/airqualitymaps/oakland/pollution-and-health-concerns-west-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a partnership\u003c/a> with the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Defense Fund\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://aclima.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aclima\u003c/a> and the University of Texas at Austin. The project, which attached Aclima sensors to Google Street View cars, measured nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon — pollutants that come from car exhaust. In June 2017, the results were \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published\u003c/a> in the journal \u003cem>Environmental Science & Technology. \u003c/em>The findings showed that air pollution varied widely within neighborhoods and individual blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the Port of Oakland reported that diesel particulate emissions were down 81% from 2005. But Ms. Margaret Gordon said health has not improved by a commensurate amount, and the gains have not been enough to combat decades of pollution in West Oakland’s air, soil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, Gordon got into this fight because of health. These days, she’d like to see some new data. “How many people still have ended up in the hospital?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood","authors":["8648"],"categories":["science_31","science_39","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_1754","science_3532"],"featImg":"science_1963012","label":"science"},"science_1945905":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1945905","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1945905","score":null,"sort":[1564703105000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"west-oakland-advocates-unhappy-with-epa-city-agreement-on-dirty-air","title":"West Oakland Advocates Unhappy With EPA, City Agreement on Dirty Air","publishDate":1564703105,"format":"standard","headTitle":"West Oakland Advocates Unhappy With EPA, City Agreement on Dirty Air | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>After negotiating for two years, federal environmental officials reached a voluntary \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/Resolution%20Letter%20and%20IRA%20-%20Paul%20Cort%20-13R%20and%2014R-17-R9%202019-07-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settlement\u003c/a> with the city and Port of Oakland over a discrimination complaint related to West Oakland’s dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement outlines a series of goals to improve communication between the community, the city and the port. But Oakland and the port did not agree to any new substantive actions to reduce pollution, according to Earthjustice, which filed the complaint on behalf of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/West-Oakland-Environmental-Indicators-Project-167059986686549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>. As part of the agreement, the EPA did not find any discrimination, which the city has \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Closed%20Session%20Reporting%20Out%20Forms/JULY%209%202019%20CLOSED%20SESSION%20REPORTING%20OUT%20FINAL%20DECISION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Ghafar, an associate attorney with Earthjustice, said advocates were “disappointed that this is the result of two years’ worth of negotiations. The EPA folks, the D.C. folks, they don’t really know what is happening on the ground here in West Oakland with the state of the air quality and diesel pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland group lodged the \u003ca href=\"http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/2017-04-04-TitleVI_Complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">complaint\u003c/a> with the civil rights offices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation in April 2017. Filed under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the complaint accused the city and port of a pattern of discrimination in the expansion of freight activity that increased pollution in the majority-black communities who live in West Oakland. Residents in those neighborhoods suffer some of the worst air quality in the Bay Area as well as some of the lowest life expectancies in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing prompted the EPA’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office to investigate whether Oakland was doing enough to prevent dangerous smog in the neighborhoods surrounding the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the goals on fostering better communication between stakeholders, the settlement cites two plans adopted by the port in recent years, one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/files/PDF/2020%20and%20Beyond%20Plan%20Vol%20I.pdf\">reduce\u003c/a> emissions while investing in electric vehicles, and another to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/files/PDF/TMP%20layout%205.17.19-Web.pdf\">regulate\u003c/a> truck traffic in the neighborhoods around West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plenty of ‘Let’s Talk’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While EPA and Oakland officials came to a resolution, the West Oakland group says it will do little to improve the health of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lacks direct action,” said Brian Beveridge, an organizer with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “There is plenty of, ‘Let’s talk and isn’t it great and we are going to work harder to make it better.’ But we would like to see some policy action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Beveridge wanted more from the settlement, he said the process did improve the dialogue between his group and the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the group filed the complaint after pressuring the port for years to engage with residents about air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Oakland’s city attorney referred questions to the Port of Oakland. Mike Zampa, the port’s communications director, said in an emailed statement that its leaders are pleased to have reached a resolution with EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the port is “serious” in its commitment to civil rights, and he pointed to the port’s effort to curb emissions and manage traffic, as well as to the addition of a section on civil rights to its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margot Perez-Sullivan, an EPA spokesperson, said in an email that the agency “will now monitor the City and the Port commitments set forth in the Agreement, as appropriate, to ensure its terms are fully implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poor Air Quality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland is bounded by interstate freeways and the port. Long before the current case, advocacy groups have noted punishing air pollution and high local asthma rates, which they say are caused by toxic diesel fumes belching from trucks driving in and out of the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland, with its 1,300 acres of facilities and 18 deep-water berths, is the third busiest seaport in California and among the 10 busiest in the U.S. More than $59.2 billion in goods flows through its bustling docks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the complaint process, Beveridge’s group has worked with Oakland and the regional air quality regulator to craft an \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/draft_plan/wocap_draft_plan_vol1-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">action plan\u003c/a> to address the toxic air in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A draft of the plan is open for public comment. Beveridge said his group is hosting a community meeting about the plan on Aug. 17 at 10 a.m. at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westoaklandyouthcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Oakland Youth Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately this is about reducing the impacts of the freight industry at the Port of Oakland and the freight industry that is in residence in West Oakland, to reduce those impacts on the people of this community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking forward to the process leading to something, we just don’t see that in the settlement.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While officials reached a resolution in the complaint, advocates say it will do little to improve the health of the people living in West Oakland.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848446,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":807},"headData":{"title":"West Oakland Advocates Unhappy With EPA, City Agreement on Dirty Air | KQED","description":"While officials reached a resolution in the complaint, advocates say it will do little to improve the health of the people living in West Oakland.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"West Oakland Advocates Unhappy With EPA, City Agreement on Dirty Air","datePublished":"2019-08-01T23:45:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T01:00:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Air Quality","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2019/08/StarkWestOaklandAir.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":128,"path":"/science/1945905/west-oakland-advocates-unhappy-with-epa-city-agreement-on-dirty-air","audioDuration":128000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After negotiating for two years, federal environmental officials reached a voluntary \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/Resolution%20Letter%20and%20IRA%20-%20Paul%20Cort%20-13R%20and%2014R-17-R9%202019-07-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settlement\u003c/a> with the city and Port of Oakland over a discrimination complaint related to West Oakland’s dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement outlines a series of goals to improve communication between the community, the city and the port. But Oakland and the port did not agree to any new substantive actions to reduce pollution, according to Earthjustice, which filed the complaint on behalf of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/West-Oakland-Environmental-Indicators-Project-167059986686549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>. As part of the agreement, the EPA did not find any discrimination, which the city has \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/Closed%20Session%20Reporting%20Out%20Forms/JULY%209%202019%20CLOSED%20SESSION%20REPORTING%20OUT%20FINAL%20DECISION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Ghafar, an associate attorney with Earthjustice, said advocates were “disappointed that this is the result of two years’ worth of negotiations. The EPA folks, the D.C. folks, they don’t really know what is happening on the ground here in West Oakland with the state of the air quality and diesel pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland group lodged the \u003ca href=\"http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/2017-04-04-TitleVI_Complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">complaint\u003c/a> with the civil rights offices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation in April 2017. Filed under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the complaint accused the city and port of a pattern of discrimination in the expansion of freight activity that increased pollution in the majority-black communities who live in West Oakland. Residents in those neighborhoods suffer some of the worst air quality in the Bay Area as well as some of the lowest life expectancies in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing prompted the EPA’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office to investigate whether Oakland was doing enough to prevent dangerous smog in the neighborhoods surrounding the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the goals on fostering better communication between stakeholders, the settlement cites two plans adopted by the port in recent years, one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/files/PDF/2020%20and%20Beyond%20Plan%20Vol%20I.pdf\">reduce\u003c/a> emissions while investing in electric vehicles, and another to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/files/PDF/TMP%20layout%205.17.19-Web.pdf\">regulate\u003c/a> truck traffic in the neighborhoods around West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plenty of ‘Let’s Talk’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While EPA and Oakland officials came to a resolution, the West Oakland group says it will do little to improve the health of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It lacks direct action,” said Brian Beveridge, an organizer with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “There is plenty of, ‘Let’s talk and isn’t it great and we are going to work harder to make it better.’ But we would like to see some policy action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Beveridge wanted more from the settlement, he said the process did improve the dialogue between his group and the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the group filed the complaint after pressuring the port for years to engage with residents about air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Oakland’s city attorney referred questions to the Port of Oakland. Mike Zampa, the port’s communications director, said in an emailed statement that its leaders are pleased to have reached a resolution with EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the port is “serious” in its commitment to civil rights, and he pointed to the port’s effort to curb emissions and manage traffic, as well as to the addition of a section on civil rights to its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margot Perez-Sullivan, an EPA spokesperson, said in an email that the agency “will now monitor the City and the Port commitments set forth in the Agreement, as appropriate, to ensure its terms are fully implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Poor Air Quality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Oakland is bounded by interstate freeways and the port. Long before the current case, advocacy groups have noted punishing air pollution and high local asthma rates, which they say are caused by toxic diesel fumes belching from trucks driving in and out of the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland, with its 1,300 acres of facilities and 18 deep-water berths, is the third busiest seaport in California and among the 10 busiest in the U.S. More than $59.2 billion in goods flows through its bustling docks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the complaint process, Beveridge’s group has worked with Oakland and the regional air quality regulator to craft an \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/draft_plan/wocap_draft_plan_vol1-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">action plan\u003c/a> to address the toxic air in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A draft of the plan is open for public comment. Beveridge said his group is hosting a community meeting about the plan on Aug. 17 at 10 a.m. at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westoaklandyouthcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Oakland Youth Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately this is about reducing the impacts of the freight industry at the Port of Oakland and the freight industry that is in residence in West Oakland, to reduce those impacts on the people of this community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking forward to the process leading to something, we just don’t see that in the settlement.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1945905/west-oakland-advocates-unhappy-with-epa-city-agreement-on-dirty-air","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_39","science_40"],"tags":["science_524","science_3532"],"featImg":"science_1945908","label":"source_science_1945905"},"science_1919474":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1919474","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1919474","score":null,"sort":[1524171626000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"battle-over-dirty-air-brewing-in-west-oakland","title":"Oakland Says Debris Company Still Polluting, Defying Court Order","publishDate":1524171626,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Says Debris Company Still Polluting, Defying Court Order | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Update: April 19, 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland reports the operator of a debris-hauling business has refused to halt operations, in violation of a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The injunction, issued April 3, ordered Moacir Santos to cease transporting debris to and from his West Oakland warehouse. The injunction followed the filing of a lawsuit by the city claiming Santos was harming air quality in the neighborhood, allowing contaminated water to flow into the city’s storm-water system and violating Oakland’s zoning laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are closely monitoring Santos’ operations and will submit evidence to the court to hold defendants in contempt if necessary,” City Attorney Barbara Parker said in a statement Thursday. “It is unconscionable and contemptible for anyone to try to profit from poisoning the neighborhood – including the children and adults who live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also alleging that a man who had been speaking on behalf of the company and who identified himself as “Jim Wolf” is actually James Philip Lucero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/south-bay-resident-convicted-illegal-dumping-wetlands-and-other-protected-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted\u003c/a> in February of violating the Federal Clean Water Act for discharging waste and pollutants into protected wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos declined to comment on the city’s most recent accusations and referred KQED to his attorney, who has yet to return a message left with his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original post from Feb. 8, 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has filed an environmental justice lawsuit against debris-hauling company Santos Engineering for allegedly releasing harmful dust emissions into the surrounding neighborhood and contributing to heightened levels of diesel pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/NLC/People%20v.%20Santos%20Engineering%20et%20al.%20-%20Complaint%20(file-stamped).pdf\"> complaint\u003c/a>, filed in late January, says the company’s operations are a public nuisance that pose a “grave and immediate threat to the health and safety of Oakland residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Ul09RImqllzWU3EFG9cmyhOBlbfcoGyH”]City Attorney Barbara Parker wants a court to issue an injunction that would force the company to immediately suspend operations. The city is also seeking punitive damages on behalf of West Oakland residents, who say they their health has suffered since the company began operating last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moacir Santos, the owner of the company, called the allegations baseless and accused the city of caving in to “rumors” aimed at discrediting his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors want to shut down businesses like mine to make the area more residential,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919676\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919676 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diesel excavator owned by Santos Engineering sits in his facility. \u003ccite>(Amel Ahmed/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s lawsuit comes shortly after a federal civil rights complaint was filed last spring by a group of black residents who say the city has compromised their health with diesel emissions. The civil rights complaint accuses the city of engaging in a “pattern of neglect and systemic disregard” for the well-being of residents, ignoring input from West Oakland neighborhoods in favor of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, two federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaNXgfAe148QJJ5G8aXzleQjdLPY_kWh4oUaZ64AKSFMIHw2NIasR5q4nm3NvLPl7q0xiQZ9vMqdzSpH/view\">announced\u003c/a> last July that they were launching a formal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wake Up With My Eyes Swollen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HIelmBvmdH8ga9DVwNls7RrlslYCfW7j”]West Oakland residents like 71-year-old Barbara Johnson complain of experiencing symptoms like difficulty breathing, severe allergies, lightheadness and severe coughing since Santos Engineering started operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up with my eyes swollen,” said Johnson, who lives directly across the street from the warehouse with her two grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919481 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1020x1022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-800x801.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-768x769.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1920x1923.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1180x1182.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-960x962.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-375x376.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-520x521.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Johnson, 71, poses with her two grandchildren, Lawrence, 8, and Marley, 10. Johnson said ever since Santos Engineering opened its operations in the neighborhood, her family has suffered from respiratory problems. \u003ccite>(Amel Ahmed / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the company opened, Johnson says she began noticing coatings of dust on neighborhood cars and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dust got so bad, she said, that she had to send her grandchildren away to stay with relatives during the recent winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them get away so they can breathe and get fresh air,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said an inspector who visited the facility in September observed dust emissions and a large diesel excavator that was being used to load construction debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No water was being used to control fugitive dust which was drifting out of the building,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint also alleges that the company uses a diesel excavator to pulverize construction material such as drywall, a known source of asbestos, and fiberglass, an irritant that can aggravate respiratory disorders such as asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘ I need guidance from the city.’\u003ccite>Moacir Santos, Santos Engineering\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Santos denied storing any drywall and fiberglass in his facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Fire Department conducted its own inspection in January and found the company to be in violation of the city’s fire regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also accuses the company of allowing its trucks to drive along prohibited residential streets, contributing to heightened levels of diesel pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santos said that he has been fully cooperative with the city and that he has made all the requested modifications to his facility following the citations he received from the fire department and BAAQMD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent tour of his facility, Santos pointed to some of these corrective measures, including adding overhead ventilation panels and installing a sprinkler system to wash away stray dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the inspector came here, I made all the changes they asked me to and emailed the inspector pictures as proof,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far from being a bad neighbor, Santos said, he has even employed local homeless people to clean his trucks in an effort to promote positive community relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been paying the homeless to wash my trucks to make the dust go down,” he said. When asked where the dust came from, Santos blamed it on other “passing trucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos said that at this point, he is not sure what more can be done to stop the neighbors from complaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need guidance from the city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Environmental Injustice’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For City Attorney Parker, however, actions taken by Santos don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can make some changes but it’s not fixing the bigger problem,” said Alex Katz, Parker’s chief of staff. “Neighbors to this day are still complaining about the dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a neighborhood historically plagued by air pollution, the complaint says the community has suffered long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This is the story of environmental racism and unequal protection.’\u003ccite>Robert Bullard, Texas Southern University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As the country’s fifth largest container port, West Oakland is littered with rail and trucking facilities. The city has 90 times more diesel pollution per square mile on average than the rest of the state, according to a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacinst.org/reports/diesel/clearing_the_air_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the nonprofit Pacific Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who live in West Oakland can expect to live nine years less than other Californians due to the poor air quality, according to a 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/401560/cumulative-health-impacts-east-west-oakland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor neighborhoods like West Oakland are often disproportionately exposed to toxic facilities, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Robert Bullard, widely known as the father of the environmental justice movement, called the accusations against Santos Engineering a “textbook case” of environmental injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the story of environmental racism and unequal protection. The fact that you have dust blowing across this vulnerable community, actions should be taken to immediately halt this operation,” said Bullard, a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that hazardous industrial facilities tend to be located in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One landmark \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/toxic-wastes-and-race-at-twenty-1987-2007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> spanning 20 years found that more than half of the people who live within 1.86 miles of toxic waste facilities are people of color. Their proximity to hazardous sites exposes them to higher rates of air pollution than people in predominantly white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally, it takes more time and effort to get these industries to stop when it’s happening in a low-income or community of color than in a white affluent community in the suburbs,” Bullard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Santos said he has no problem with making additional modifications to his facility, including dealing with the alleged dust problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If dust is the problem, I’ll resolve all this in 20 to 25,000 dollars. I can make this place perfect.” He added that city inspectors have never actually tested his facility for toxins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Katz said the city isn’t required to test the facility in order to file a public nuisance claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a business that hauls construction debris from all over the Bay Area. And while no one has gone out and collected the dust to test it, if the neighbors are still complaining . . . our office considers this to be serious enough to ask the court to intervene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city now waits to see if a judge agrees with them and issues an order to stop the company’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A West Oakland community is battling a debris-hauling company over its alleged poisoning of air and water. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927984,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":1513},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Says Debris Company Still Polluting, Defying Court Order | KQED","description":"A West Oakland community is battling a debris-hauling company over its alleged poisoning of air and water. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Oakland Says Debris Company Still Polluting, Defying Court Order","datePublished":"2018-04-19T21:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:06:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Environment","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1919474/battle-over-dirty-air-brewing-in-west-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Update: April 19, 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland reports the operator of a debris-hauling business has refused to halt operations, in violation of a court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The injunction, issued April 3, ordered Moacir Santos to cease transporting debris to and from his West Oakland warehouse. The injunction followed the filing of a lawsuit by the city claiming Santos was harming air quality in the neighborhood, allowing contaminated water to flow into the city’s storm-water system and violating Oakland’s zoning laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are closely monitoring Santos’ operations and will submit evidence to the court to hold defendants in contempt if necessary,” City Attorney Barbara Parker said in a statement Thursday. “It is unconscionable and contemptible for anyone to try to profit from poisoning the neighborhood – including the children and adults who live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also alleging that a man who had been speaking on behalf of the company and who identified himself as “Jim Wolf” is actually James Philip Lucero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/south-bay-resident-convicted-illegal-dumping-wetlands-and-other-protected-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted\u003c/a> in February of violating the Federal Clean Water Act for discharging waste and pollutants into protected wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos declined to comment on the city’s most recent accusations and referred KQED to his attorney, who has yet to return a message left with his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original post from Feb. 8, 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland has filed an environmental justice lawsuit against debris-hauling company Santos Engineering for allegedly releasing harmful dust emissions into the surrounding neighborhood and contributing to heightened levels of diesel pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/PDFS/NLC/People%20v.%20Santos%20Engineering%20et%20al.%20-%20Complaint%20(file-stamped).pdf\"> complaint\u003c/a>, filed in late January, says the company’s operations are a public nuisance that pose a “grave and immediate threat to the health and safety of Oakland residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>City Attorney Barbara Parker wants a court to issue an injunction that would force the company to immediately suspend operations. The city is also seeking punitive damages on behalf of West Oakland residents, who say they their health has suffered since the company began operating last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moacir Santos, the owner of the company, called the allegations baseless and accused the city of caving in to “rumors” aimed at discrediting his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors want to shut down businesses like mine to make the area more residential,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919676\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919676 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6210-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diesel excavator owned by Santos Engineering sits in his facility. \u003ccite>(Amel Ahmed/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s lawsuit comes shortly after a federal civil rights complaint was filed last spring by a group of black residents who say the city has compromised their health with diesel emissions. The civil rights complaint accuses the city of engaging in a “pattern of neglect and systemic disregard” for the well-being of residents, ignoring input from West Oakland neighborhoods in favor of industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, two federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LaNXgfAe148QJJ5G8aXzleQjdLPY_kWh4oUaZ64AKSFMIHw2NIasR5q4nm3NvLPl7q0xiQZ9vMqdzSpH/view\">announced\u003c/a> last July that they were launching a formal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Wake Up With My Eyes Swollen’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>West Oakland residents like 71-year-old Barbara Johnson complain of experiencing symptoms like difficulty breathing, severe allergies, lightheadness and severe coughing since Santos Engineering started operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up with my eyes swollen,” said Johnson, who lives directly across the street from the warehouse with her two grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919481 \" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1020x1022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1020x1022.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-800x801.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-768x769.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1920x1923.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-1180x1182.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-960x962.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-375x376.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-520x521.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_6256-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Johnson, 71, poses with her two grandchildren, Lawrence, 8, and Marley, 10. Johnson said ever since Santos Engineering opened its operations in the neighborhood, her family has suffered from respiratory problems. \u003ccite>(Amel Ahmed / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the company opened, Johnson says she began noticing coatings of dust on neighborhood cars and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dust got so bad, she said, that she had to send her grandchildren away to stay with relatives during the recent winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them get away so they can breathe and get fresh air,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said an inspector who visited the facility in September observed dust emissions and a large diesel excavator that was being used to load construction debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No water was being used to control fugitive dust which was drifting out of the building,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint also alleges that the company uses a diesel excavator to pulverize construction material such as drywall, a known source of asbestos, and fiberglass, an irritant that can aggravate respiratory disorders such as asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘ I need guidance from the city.’\u003ccite>Moacir Santos, Santos Engineering\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Santos denied storing any drywall and fiberglass in his facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Fire Department conducted its own inspection in January and found the company to be in violation of the city’s fire regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also accuses the company of allowing its trucks to drive along prohibited residential streets, contributing to heightened levels of diesel pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santos said that he has been fully cooperative with the city and that he has made all the requested modifications to his facility following the citations he received from the fire department and BAAQMD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent tour of his facility, Santos pointed to some of these corrective measures, including adding overhead ventilation panels and installing a sprinkler system to wash away stray dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the inspector came here, I made all the changes they asked me to and emailed the inspector pictures as proof,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far from being a bad neighbor, Santos said, he has even employed local homeless people to clean his trucks in an effort to promote positive community relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been paying the homeless to wash my trucks to make the dust go down,” he said. When asked where the dust came from, Santos blamed it on other “passing trucks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santos said that at this point, he is not sure what more can be done to stop the neighbors from complaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need guidance from the city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Environmental Injustice’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For City Attorney Parker, however, actions taken by Santos don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can make some changes but it’s not fixing the bigger problem,” said Alex Katz, Parker’s chief of staff. “Neighbors to this day are still complaining about the dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a neighborhood historically plagued by air pollution, the complaint says the community has suffered long enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This is the story of environmental racism and unequal protection.’\u003ccite>Robert Bullard, Texas Southern University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As the country’s fifth largest container port, West Oakland is littered with rail and trucking facilities. The city has 90 times more diesel pollution per square mile on average than the rest of the state, according to a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacinst.org/reports/diesel/clearing_the_air_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the nonprofit Pacific Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who live in West Oakland can expect to live nine years less than other Californians due to the poor air quality, according to a 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/401560/cumulative-health-impacts-east-west-oakland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poor neighborhoods like West Oakland are often disproportionately exposed to toxic facilities, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Robert Bullard, widely known as the father of the environmental justice movement, called the accusations against Santos Engineering a “textbook case” of environmental injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the story of environmental racism and unequal protection. The fact that you have dust blowing across this vulnerable community, actions should be taken to immediately halt this operation,” said Bullard, a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown that hazardous industrial facilities tend to be located in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One landmark \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/toxic-wastes-and-race-at-twenty-1987-2007.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> spanning 20 years found that more than half of the people who live within 1.86 miles of toxic waste facilities are people of color. Their proximity to hazardous sites exposes them to higher rates of air pollution than people in predominantly white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generally, it takes more time and effort to get these industries to stop when it’s happening in a low-income or community of color than in a white affluent community in the suburbs,” Bullard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Santos said he has no problem with making additional modifications to his facility, including dealing with the alleged dust problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If dust is the problem, I’ll resolve all this in 20 to 25,000 dollars. I can make this place perfect.” He added that city inspectors have never actually tested his facility for toxins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Katz said the city isn’t required to test the facility in order to file a public nuisance claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a business that hauls construction debris from all over the Bay Area. 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