A federal appeals court in San Francisco has given a green light to the shipment of up to 5 million metric tons of coal per year through a planned bulk terminal at the former Oakland Army Base.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 2-1 vote Tuesday upheld a federal trial judge’s ruling that the Oakland City Council lacked sufficient evidence when it sought to ban large shipments of coal in 2016.
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