Article by CB Smith-Dahl.
Last updated at Tue, 4 Oct at 8:28am.

Two years after Newsdesk.org first examined high levels of air pollution in West Oakland, progress towards helping this community breathe easier is moving slowly. Thorny projects, including cleanups at the port and a local Superfund site, are hard to keep moving.

Blog entry by Jason Mahon.
Last updated at Sun, 1 May at 7:44am.

By Jason Mahon of OaklandWaste.org.

Article by Barbara Grady.
Last updated at Wed, 1 Sep at 7:11am.

West Oaklanders and the Port of Oakland may have a new chance to clean up the air in the asthma-plagued neighborhood, now that a U.S. District Court Judge upheld the right of the Port of Los Angeles to implement a Clean Truck Program.
 
Though already facing an appeal, the Court’s ruling late Friday on Los Angeles’ innovative Clean Truck Program has been greeted as likely to serve as legal precedent, paving the way for ports elsewhere to cut diesel emissions by regulating the trucking fleets serving their ports.

Article by Kwan Booth.
Last updated at Sun, 11 Oct at 7:19pm.

Tuesday night saw the end of two years of negotiations between the Port of Oakland, environmentalists, truckers and West Oakland residents, with a vote to reduce toxic emissions from trucks serving the busy shipping center.

Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Sat, 10 Oct at 1:11pm.

Fact Sheet: Oakland Port, Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports