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WOEIP is a resident led, community-based environmental justice organization dedicated to achieving healthy homes, healthy jobs, and healthy neighborhoods for all who live, work, learn, and play in West Oakland, California.

11/06/2026

Soil remediation is starting this summer at the West Oakland BART parking lot! Mandela Station’s developers are building 240 units of affordable housing on the parking lot’s southwest quadrant–but first, they have to remove 333 truckloads of dirt contaminated with lead and other toxins.

Soil remediation is a good thing–but any time you’re working with toxic soil, there are potential health risks. If toxic soil becomes airborne, it can drift into the neighborhood where people can breathe it in: this is called “fugitive dust.” The community can help by keeping a close eye on this project to make sure it follows the strictest safety protocols.

❓What questions do you have about this project? The housing developers are putting together an FAQ. Comment or DM us your questions and we’ll pass them along.

10/06/2026

We love giving away induction cooktops to Oakland families because it’s a win-win-win: families get a brand-new appliance; kids get better air quality at home; and Oakland takes another step away from polluting fossil fuels.

Switching from a polluting natural gas stove to a clean induction cooktop is one of the best things you can do for indoor air quality. Our Induction Cooktop Teaching Project helps Oakland families transition off natural gas through hands-on education for kids in Oakland schools.

This year, we partnered with our local not-for-profit electricity provider to give away fifteen induction cooktop kits at !

Want to bring the Induction Cooktop Teaching Project to your school? Check us out at woeip.org/ictp

09/06/2026

Last week Trump announced a $700 million handout to the coal industry–including $75 million for a massively unpopular coal terminal in West Oakland.

There’s a reason the terminal needs a massive injection from the Trump administration to move forward: it’s a bad project. For the climate, for the people of Oakland, and for American taxpayers. Renewable energy consistently outcompetes dirty coal.

This isn’t just a West Oakland problem: coal trains would release toxic dust from Martinez all the way down to Oakland, causing additional deaths from air pollution every year.

We need all hands on deck to stop the coal terminal. Take action:

⭐RSVP to our community meeting on June 25 at bit.ly/no-coal-june (link in bio)

⭐Sign the letter to our local clean air regulators at at bit.ly/dear-baad (link in bio)

⭐ Follow on Instagram, Facebook, or at nocoal.org for campaign updates

Community meeting: No Coal in the East Bay!Last week, Trump announced a $75 million handout to build a massively unpopul...
08/06/2026

Community meeting: No Coal in the East Bay!

Last week, Trump announced a $75 million handout to build a massively unpopular coal export terminal in West Oakland.

Now is the moment to come together and stop the coal terminal. Come learn about the decade-long campaign opposing the coal terminal, get updates on the campaign, and brainstorm ways to take action in small groups.

📅Thursday, June 25
⏰7-8:30 pm
📍La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
🔗RSVP at bit.ly/no-coal-june

04/06/2026

West Oakland is one of the oldest and most culturally significant neighborhoods in the city–yet it’s been treated as a “sacrifice zone.” In modern cities, communities of color are saddled with land uses that people don’t want in their backyards, from recyclers to sewage treatment to truck yards.

But West Oaklanders have fought and won battle after battle to kick out polluters, remediate toxic soil, and reshape our urban landscape–from the pivotal victory against the megapolluting Red Star Yeast Factory in 2003 to replacing a double-decker highway with the chain of parks along Mandela Parkway after the 1989 eathquake.

03/06/2026

Let’s catch up to our neighbors in SoCal! Here’s how you can support lifesaving regulations for warehouses 👉

is considering a new Indirect Source Rule that would require warehouses to reduce truck pollution. already has a rule like this thanks to the hard work of groups like and it’s seeing great results.

On June 10, make a public comment at the Air District’s committee meeting, online or in person. The Air District needs to hear from the people of the Bay that we want a strong, enforceable Indirect Source Rule!

🔗bit.ly/warehouse-isr-comment for action guide to make your public comment.

It’s finally live! 🥳Our StoryMap is packed with never-before-seen insights and data on West Oakland’s air quality stemmi...
03/06/2026

It’s finally live! 🥳Our StoryMap is packed with never-before-seen insights and data on West Oakland’s air quality stemming from months of community-led research and design.

At our launch party last week, we dove into the data with hundreds of neighbors and supporters. The data was a jumping off point for all kinds of important conversations: what’s the relationship between soil toxicity and air quality? How do we protect ourselves from air pollution at home? What else do we need to know about elevated levels of heavy metals?

These rich conversations are exactly why we created the StoryMap: to help West Oakland residents understand their air, to spark curiosity, and to give residents hard data to use in their advocacy and organizing.

Check out the map at woeip.org/woaq

📸Photos courtesy of Ben Delaney.

02/06/2026

Our new StoryMap is full of insights and data on West Oakland’s air. Check it out at woeip.org/woaq (link in bio).

This map is by and for West Oakland residents, to understand air quality disparities and what to do about them. Explore the map to learn where we found a hotspot of heavy metals, how our air quality is changing for the better, and why the Port is now our biggest target for emissions reductions.

28/05/2026

How can we have so many environmental regulations in California and still end up with overpolluted neighborhoods like West Oakland? It’s because we regulate every polluter individually–but we don’t breathe in just one pollutant from one place at a time.

In West Oakland, lots of different pollutants from different sources interact with each other, but our regulations don’t take this cumulative impact into account.

We’re looking closely at Chicago’s proposed Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance as a model for smarter environmental regulations. It requires a cumulative impact study for heavy industrial facilities (like manufacturing and recycling) so new polluters can’t set up shop in neighborhoods that already have more than their fair share of dangerous emissions.

What do you think? What might change in West Oakland if we regulated the cumulative impact, not just the individual impact, of all our polluters?

26/05/2026

A new air quality regulation would curb dirty diesel truck pollution by tackling the sneaky polluters trucks are traveling to: warehouses.

Warehouses are proliferating across the Bay Area, bringing more diesel trucks through our neighborhoods and contributing to higher rates of asthma, stroke, heart disease, and more. It’s time to follow Southern California’s lead and stand up to shipping pollution.

Tell we want a strong, enforceable Indirect Source Rule to hold warehouses accountable for the pollution they generate across the Bay.

Two ways to make a public comment:

💌Send your written public comment by June 1

🗣️Give a comment online or in person at the June 10 Bay Area Air District meeting

🔗Get our action guide at bit.ly/warehouse-isr-comment (link in bio).

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