The City of Oakland has cancelled a lease agreement for a coal terminal which had raised controversy. The city said the it cancelled the project because of a lack of progress on the ground. The terminal was in courts from 2016, when Oakland voted to ban ship coal using city land.
Before the 2016 vote, an advisory panel to Oakland’s city council concluded that coal trains that are transiting the city would increase air pollution. However, the operator of the terminal noted that the ban of a legal...
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