Two pending lawsuits accuse the AB&I Foundry of failing to provide state-required warnings of the release of hexavalent chromium, a toxin that can cause lung and other forms of cancer. They als…
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a pipe fitting factory in East Oakland, accusing it of illegally emitting carcinogenic toxins into the community around it.
The two lawsuits come after the Bay Area Air Quality Management District released a draft Health Risk Assessment last year, identifying AB&I Foundry has having “twenty operations at this facility that emit one or more toxic air contaminants.
The foundry, located on San Leandro Street in a densely populated area near the Oakland Coliseum, is within a mile of about 10 schools. The Attorney General’s office found that about 85% of the households in the community are living under the poverty line and are mostly Latino and Black residents.
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