Save Our Skies East Bay

10/19/2023

Great article in the East Bay Times describing Alameda’s opposition to the OAK expansion!

In the most comprehensive take-down of the Oakland airport’s planned expansion to date, the city of Alameda posted a damning 110-page critique on Friday blasting the port’s environmental impa…

08/30/2023

Let your voices be heard! Come to the Port’s OAK airport expansion meeting today!

RSVP for Rally & make a comment at the Public Hearing 10:30 am Sidewalk Rally and 11:00 am public hearing is at Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel, 1 Hegenberger Rd.More information about the public hearing is here on the Airport Development Website.Here is our coalition guide for public comment with samp...

08/08/2023

OAK Airport Wants to Expand by 55% Per New Draft EIR! -

Climate records are tumbling. Our earth is the hottest it’s ever been and Oakland Airport wants to add 16 more gates to make our climate, air and noise pollution worse!

08/08/2023

10/25/2022

Sign the petition!

Oakland Airport is planning an expansion to add 17 new gates putting the community and climate at risk. More flights = more global warming, more pollution, more noise. We are organizing for a healthier future. Join us.Sign the petition 10 reasons to stop airport expansion:click on the + to read more...

08/29/2022

Per the Sierra Club:

Oakland Airport is planning an expansion to add 17 new gates, putting the community and climate at risk. More flights = more global warming, more pollution, more noise. Sign this petition to voice your concern. Petition will be delivered to the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners and relevant elected officials. Read more at www.stopOAKexpansion.org

https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/SanFranciscoBay?actionId=AR0364986

Oakland Airport is planning an expansion to add 17 new gates putting the community and climate at risk. More flights = more global warming, more pollution, more noise. We are organizing for a healthier future. Join us.Sign the petition 10 reasons to stop airport expansion:click on the + to read more...

06/20/2022

I need a “SMART vortex generator!”

Boeing has just revealed its new 2022 ecoDemonstrator plane — a converted, 20-year-old 777-200ER tasked with testing new technologies aimed at making air travel more sustainable and safer.

06/14/2022

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuits-challenge-two-massive-bay-area-biofuel-refinery-projects-2022-06-08/

Rushed Review Ignored Dangers to Communities, Environment

06/14/2022

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-carb-epa-must-rethink-standards-regulating-particulate

OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) today, leading a multistate coalition, urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to adopt more protective standards for particulate matter emissions from airplanes. As currently written, the EPA’s...

03/29/2022

From the Stop OAK Expansion coalition: Let’s tell the EPA we need stronger aircraft pollution standards!

Air pollution from aircraft emissions causes serious health problems for communities. Residents living near airports are more likely to be admitted to the hospital for asthma and experience higher rates of cancer, heart disease, and even premature death rate. One study estimated that fine particle e...

03/29/2022

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Oakland Airport is planning an expansion to add 17 new gates putting the community and climate at risk. We are organizing for a healthier future. Join us. Photo Credit: Maggie OsterbergWhy airport expansion is risky Air PollutionAir pollution from the airport harms front line communities in East Oak...

02/17/2022

Perhaps this is an opening?

The leader of the Federal Aviation Administration, whose agency has been criticized for its oversight of Boeing and handling of questions surrounding 5G interference with aircraft, said Wednesday he will step down March 31. Stephen Dickson, a former pilot and executive with Delta Air Lines in Atlant...