"By doing (these) additional gates and increased airport traffic, these communities will be getting additional pollution in an area already overburdened by pollution," said Dr. Paul English, member of the Stop OAK Expansion Coalition.
"When you look at the data, these East Oakland zip codes, they have rates of emergency visits from asthma that are three times the state average, coronary obstructive pulmonary disease rates that are twice the state average, and heart attacks which are 45% higher than the state average," said Dr. English.
The main claim is that the airport's final Environmental Impact Report does not meet the standards of the California Environmental Quality Act, focusing on health inequities in the report.
The Port is proposing to modernize OAK's aging passenger terminals by demolishing part of Terminal 1 and constructing new terminal facilities that meet up-to-date safety, seismic, and efficiency standards.
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