Community to bear. Reporter oakland councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan sits on the air quality district board. She wants the district to look at Health Impacts before issuing a permit. She gave us this graphic. The crematorium is here. East oakland is highlighted in red. This shows that we have the highest pollution levels, the greatest cancer risk and risk of other diseases for this community right around this crematorium. Reporter aside from air pollution, four asian workers at the business across the street quit their job saying its bad funshwa. In areas that are affluent and where there are more white residents this would never happen. Reporter the air quality district puts the blame on the city of oakland. Thats because even though the city Council Voted down the crematorium, the Planning Department actually gave a land use permit to the company before that vote and a judge says this council cannot backtrack. By the way, the workers inside did not want to talk on camera. Also the Houston
Mayoral candidates Elvis Allen and Aaron “Bubba” Smith and City Council candidates Mark Carroll and William Smith were given the same set of questions and their answers are printed below