Calling for an end to the unequal enforcement of environmental laws and disproportionate environmental impacts in low-income communities of color, the Toxic Triangle Coalition will hold its first public hearing on Saturday, February 13th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Allen Temple Baptist Church in the J. Alfred Smith Sr.

Low-income truckers who would have been shut out of working at the Port of Oakland on Jan. 4  now have a reprieve, thanks to the the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board.

These two entities have come up with an additional $3 million in what Mayor Dellum's spokesperson, Paul Rose, describes as "grants."