Developer Phil Tagami recently won a 10-year legal battle over his right to build a shipping terminal on Oakland’s waterfront that could be used to export coal. But how soon and even whether coal cars will travel through West Oakland is still a big question.
Tagami has been working on a plan to redevelop a former U.S. Army base at the foot of the Bay Bridge toll plaza since at least 2009, with a shipping terminal central to the proposal. In 2015, city officials and community and environmental groups began fighting the project when news went public that it involved shipping coal through already polluted West Oakland.
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