{"id":346983,"date":"2026-06-04T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:30:11","slug":"trump-gives-oakland-75-million-for-its-new-terminal-in-big-boost-to-coal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346983\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives Oakland $75 million for its new terminal in big boost to coal industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that provides $75 million for a new coal export terminal in Oakland, California, designed to move the fossil fuel from western states to overseas markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal has been in development for a decade. Delays have come from the many political, legal, and financial battles the project has endured.<\/p>\n

But, using the Defense Production Act, Trump ordered its construction. Once finished, the terminal will open a pathway for coal shipments out of the western United States, primarily Utah and Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Trump signed an executive order giving $75 million to Oakland, California, to build a terminal to ship coal MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

This federal funding will allow the project to break ground this summer, a White House official told The Post, and ship coal out of the port by summer of 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The terminal is predicted to export up to 12 million tons of coal annually to Asian markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe West Gateway Terminal will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,\u201d the official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected to create over 1,400 jobs on-site and support thousands more across the Western United States, from miners and railroad workers to port workers, engineers, and construction workers, the official noted.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s order is a general boon for America\u2019s coal industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also includes $200 million to build two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia and to restart a coal plant in Maryland. This will be the first new coal plants in the US since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, the order provides $425 million to support 13 existing plants across 10 states: West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoman, North Dakota and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

The White House official said approximately 12,500 coal jobs will be saved with these boosts to coal plants.<\/p>\n

\"AerialOakland has the ninth biggest port in the nation and the new terminal would focus on shipping coal to Asian markets AP Photo\/Eric Risberg<\/p>\n

Environmental groups have protested construction of the Oakland terminal and are expected to continue to do so.<\/p>\n

Developer Phil Tagami won a huge victory last year when the California Supreme Court ruled in his favor that the City of Oakland wrongfully terminated his lease for the terminal.<\/p>\n

But the protests against it will continue. The San Francisco \u201cNo Coal\u201d group rallied its members in April amid reports the terminal was going to get a boost in funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaders of the campaign are girding themselves for a new battle, one that will be waged outside the courtroom,\u201d the group said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oakland has the country\u2019s ninth biggest port <\/a>but it\u2019s also situated in one of the most liberal areas of the country, next to San Francisco, making the terminal a target.<\/p>\n

Trump has long praised the benefits of \u201cclean coal\u201d <\/a>and has worked to undo many of the environmental regulations Joe Biden put in place during his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that provides $75 million for a new coal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,142265,536,143,145,144,3586],"class_list":["post-346983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-coal-mines","tag-donald-trump","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}