The multimedia series Bay Area Toxic Tour: West Oakland was published by the nonprofit online news packager/distributor Newsdesk.org—and crowdfunded by through Spot.us.

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By Kwan Booth Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour 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. The Comprehensive Truck Management Plan aims [...]

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By Kwan Booth Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour The long road leading to cleaner air in West Oakland was stretched just a little farther Tuesday night, as Port of Oakland commissioners postponed voting on a controversial new program to control diesel pollution from thousands of trucks serving the port. [...]

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By Kwan Booth Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour While much of the debate on reducing emissions from the Port of Oakland has revolved around trucks, diesel pollution from the trucks is estimated to make up only 4 percent of West Oakland’s overall toxic burden. A much larger percentage has [...]

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West Oakland is pinned between the Bay Area's largest, busiest port and two major commuter freeways, and is home to decades of legacy pollution, making this marginalized but determined community a hotspot for childhood asthma and other illnesses. Photo & Audio: Kim Komenich

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By Kwan Booth Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour Just about any long-term West Oakland resident can rattle off a list of health issues effecting their community: toxins from cargo ships docking at the nearby Port of Oakland, diesel smoke from Port-bound trucks, pollution from the two freeways that border [...]

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Photography and audio by Kim Komenich Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour

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By Kwan Booth Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour Talking to Dr. Washington Burns the other day I learned some pretty shocking information: 37 percent of the adults and 20 percent of the kids living in West Oakland have asthma and children living in this community are seven times more [...]

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Image and interview by Kim Komenich Crowdfund this with Spot.Us Part of the Bay Area Toxic Tour Interview for Bay Area Toxic Tour: West Oakland by Kim Komenich

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Diesel exhaust from trucks serving the Port of Oakland brought confrontational protests to a May 2 public meeting (right). Our latest collaboration with SPOT.US takes a multimedia look at the conflict, in the first part of a series on pollution and communities. Photo: Kim Komenich for Newsdesk.org

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