{"id":29780,"date":"2022-04-05T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shipping-pitches-for-the-oakland-athletics-to-walk\/29780\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:11:02","slug":"shipping-pitches-for-the-oakland-athletics-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/shipping-pitches-for-the-oakland-athletics-to-walk\/29780\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping pitches for the Oakland Athletics to walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>A host of shipping groups have come together as a team determined to oppose a giant stadium planned along the waterfront of Oakland, one of California\u2019s premier ports.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, several organisations representing truckers, ocean carriers, terminal operators, longshore workers and other port-related businesses filed a lawsuit against the Oakland Athletics baseball team for its plans to build a $12bn ballpark complex on the Howard Terminal waterfront. The complaint alleges the stadium plans don\u2019t properly meet environmental standards as stipulated in the California Environmental Quality Act.<\/p>\n<p>Rail firm Union Pacific Corp has also entered the fray, filing its own separate suit against the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The development \u201cwill cause major disruptions and impacts to both the surrounding community and the operations of the port,\u201d including by eliminating the port\u2019s Howard Terminal, according to Union Pacific\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n<p>A fortnight ago local officials used a bureaucratic technicality to slow the project with management at the baseball team now openly threatening to move the franchise to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A host of shipping groups have come together as a team determined to oppose a giant stadium planned along the waterfront of Oakland, one of California\u2019s premier ports. On Friday, several organisations representing truckers, ocean carriers, terminal operators, longshore workers and other port-related businesses filed a lawsuit against the Oakland Athletics baseball team for its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}