Judge hands win to A’s waterfront stadium supporters, dismisses environment concerns

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has rejected legal challenges to the Oakland A’s quest for a new stadium that had argued that the proposed ballpark at Howard Terminal would cause serious environmental harm to the surrounding port area.

The lawsuits, filed in April by the East Oakland Stadium Alliance, the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority and a handful of port industry and labor organizations, argued that officials with the city of Oakland did not properly vet the project’s environmental repercussions when the Oakland City Council approved an environmental impact report for the proposal earlier this year.