Attorney General Bonta Announces Settlement to Protect Environmental Justice Communities in West Oakland.
Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the planned construction of a 18 acre marine terminal in Oakland. This is what is being known as the Eagle Rock Aggregates Terminal Project, aggregates being raw material used for construction. The settlement has negotiated commitments to mitigate the projects air quality impacts on the community less than a mile away. Bonta states that he will “continue fighting for the West Oakland community…going forward”. Because the area is low income, not much has been done about pollution in the area, especially from port projects. Requirements such as watering systems for aggregate stockpiles and protocols to use water to control fugitive dust” have been much more clear than the original vague and “limited watering requirements”. Another main source of pollution from the project is equipment and vehicle trips, so another agreement is that the project will switch to fully electric or zero emission vehicles to account for this. The last settlement agreement is that the project must stop using outdated air quality analysis for future projects and will be more transparent about their environmental impact.