February 27, 2019 Repeat environmental felon gets 30 months for dumping on protected wetlands James Lucero was sentenced for dumping dirt and construction debris in Newark. He was previously convicted of bribing landfill operators in San Jose and was tied to a West Oakland warehouse forced to close last month.
January 15, 2019 Oakland’s professional polluters A pair of West Oakland businessmen have been dodging city regulators and prosecutors for years as they reap the rewards of illegal trash disposal and dumping.
April 18, 2018 Neighbor sues owner of demolished arts space, alleging toxic runoff Developer Danny Haber’s project to rebuild a red-tagged live-work warehouse has been stalled by environmental review and could be delayed further.
April 4, 2018 Fire and Fortune A year after a fire killed four people at a San Pablo Avenue building for low-income people, many of the former residents are still suffering. The owners of the building? Not so much.
March 14, 2018 West Oakland’s food desert remains A shopping plaza where the city and community partners have been trying to open a supermarket for more than a decade was sold in the fraud case against the former Tribune Tower owner.
October 25, 2017 A towering scam Tom Henderson bought the iconic Tribune Tower and was hailed as an Oakland hero. The feds say it was all a con.
August 30, 2017 Garbage out Plans to move California Waste Solutions appear to have stalled amid increasing neighbor complaints of trash, stench, and rats at its West Oakland facility.
March 20, 2017 Feds begin cleanup Of West Oakland chemical spill discovered In 1995 On Saturday, efforts to remove contaminated soil and groundwater at a former chemical facility in West Oakland began — two decades after the problem…
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