West Oakland in an undated image. (Photo courtesy of the California Air Resources Board)

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s board of directors approved a plan to improve the air in West Oakland, district officials said Oct. 4.

The board voted to approve “Own Our Air: The West Oakland Community Action Plan,” which the district wrote with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.