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A handful of youth groups took their concerns about the environment across the bay recently, when they rallied in San Francisco to protest a coal terminal planned in West Oakland.

The middle and high school students with Youth Vs Apocalypse, Warriors for Justice and West Oakland Legacy and Leadership at Attitudinal Healing Connection gathered at the One Market Plaza office of Bank of Montreal to ask that it pull its finances from the project.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.