Media Coverage

2025

• 2025-04-04 Oaklandside Jet fumes over East Oakland but not Alameda? Groups say new OAK deal reinforces historic inequities
• 2025-03-29 KPFA Evening News minutes 21:46 to 24:30
• 2025-01-02 Mercury News Opinion: Fewer SJC, OAK passengers is good for climate change fight; Oakland expansion plan is not

2024

• 2024-12-21 ABC7 News 2 lawsuits filed by The Stop OAK Expansion Coalition and Communities for a Better Environment, challenge environmental, health impacts of Oakland Airport expansion
• 2024-12-20 Oaklandside Oakland airport expansion opponents hit port with 2 lawsuits
• 2024-12-19 Mercury News Environmental organization seeks injunction to stop Oakland Airport terminal redevelopment
• 2024-11-22 Mercury News Port of Oakland Commission certifies environmental report for Oakland Airport Expansion
• 2024-11-21 Oaklandside Group opposing OAK airport expansion says health concerns have been ignored
• 2024-10-17 Mercury News Final environmental impact report for Oakland airport released
• 2024-09-15 Mercury News Oakland airport expansion plans draw criticism on emissions, air quality
• 2024-08-30 KPFA radio show A Rude Awakening Stop OAK Expansion
• 2024-07-25 CBS News Bay Area Scientist-activist group criticizes Oakland airport expansion
• 2024-05-14 KPFA News Oakland youths and their supporters call on city officials to reject airport expansion, citing environmental impacts.
• 2024-05-12 Oaklandside Oakland airport approves controversial name change
• 2024-05-10 Oaklandside Flyers, welcome to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport’
• 2024-05-09 Fox KTVU Oakland airport changing name to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport’
• 2024-04-11 SF Chronicle Oakland airport name change approved, setting up show down with SFO
• 2024-04-08 Oaklandside Push to rename Oakland airport reveals flaw in expansion plan, say activists. Airport officials say there’s a need to build a new terminal to accommodate millions more passengers. But flight numbers have yet to rebound from the pandemic.

2023

• 2023-10-21 KPFA Evening News The Stop OAK Airport Expansion story begins around minute 21:45
• 2023-10-18 Kron4 Groups push back against Oakland Airport expansion
• 2023-10-18 Mercury News Alameda responds to Oakland Airport expansion plan with blistering 110-page critique City’s position adds government voice to opposition from community advocates
• 2023-09-20 Mercury News The Port of Oakland took on massive debt for an expansion that some say went bust. Is the same mistake possible?
• 2023-08-30 Fox 2 KTVU Proposal to enlarge Oakland airport criticized
• 2023-08-22 Mercury News Critics of expansion say Oakland airport’s zero-emissions plan is missing most crucial element. Officials targeting a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
• 2023-08-15 East Bay Times Oakland Airport expansion is a threat to climate change goals, environmental coalition warns. Groups to rally in protest of plan for new 830,000-square-foot terminal
• 2023-08-16 San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center Oakland Airport Expansion Plans Meet Pushback
• 2023-08-01 Oaklandside Oakland International Airport wants to expand. Environmentalists say it’s a bad idea. Local environmental groups say a plan to add 16 new passenger gates will fuel Earth’s climate emergency.

2021

• 2021-09-25 Truthout Unions and Climate Activists Find Common Cause in Opposing Airport Expansion. The climate movement’s most powerful ally against rampant growth in air travel is the industry’s vast labor force.