Category: Hunters Point
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“S.F. shipyard redevelopment delayed further after Navy agrees to expand toxic cleanup” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“The objects — a 1.5-inch deck marker covered in radium tainted paint that was used to light passageways on ships during the Cold War, and a radioactive piece of glass...
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‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup (SF Examiner)
“An environmental advocacy group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy for ‘egregious violations’ during its cleanup of radioactive toxins at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. San Francisco-based...
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Greenaction Files Lawsuit Against US Navy and EPA on Hunters Point Cleanup
“Representatives from Greenaction for Health Environmental Justice have told the Chronicle that the group plans to file a lawsuit in federal court on Friday naming the U.S. Navy, which is...
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Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund Site Has Been Badly Mishandled, Lawsuit Alleges (KQED)
“An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, one of...
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Critique by CBG of the Navy’s Draft Fifth Five-Year Review of Hunters Point
Click here to read our critique. Click here for the appendix to our critique. Every five years, the United States Navy is required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and...
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US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site (KQED)
A recent report from the US Navy confirms what we argued in our 2019 report on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard: leaving contamination on-site beneath a thin ‘cover,’ as the...
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Radioactive objects turn up at S.F. site slated to become huge waterfront neighborhood — again (SF Chronicle)
“For the second time in five years, a massive retesting effort has turned up radioactive objects at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in areas that were already swept of...
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More radioactive objects found in SF’s Hunters Point shipyard testing (NBC Bay Area)
“The ongoing testing on the old Hunters Point Naval shipyard has turned up a piece of radioactive glass and another radium deck marker.”
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Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns (KQED)
“The discovery, announced this week, is the latest in a steady drip of troubling findings at one of the city’s most ambitious redevelopment projects.”
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US navy accused of cover-up over radioactive shipyard waste (The Guardian)
“The US navy is covering up dangerous levels of radioactive waste on a 40-acre former shipyard parcel in San Francisco’s waterside Hunters Point neighborhood, public health advocates charge. The land...
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Fresh concerns raised about the cleanup of Hunters Point Shipyard (SF Examiner)
“On Thursday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, filed a complaint to the Navy’s Inspector General demanding an investigation of the Navy’s analysis of radioactive waste found...
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Navy Rejects Data Showing Hunters Point Strontium-90 Hot Spots as ‘Skewed’ (NBC Bay Area)
“A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point...
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The Elusive Quest for Environmental Justice at Hunters Point (Earth Island Journal)
“In the long-running battle for environmental justice, the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco is a crucial beachhead. The Navy and EPA have been trying to clean up...
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Op-Ed: Speaker Pelosi’s farewell gift to San Francisco should be a clean Hunters Point (SF Examiner)
Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), recently published an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner. He writes, “As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enters her...
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San Francisco, EPA Fight Over Hunters Point Shipyard Radiation Cleanup (NBC Bay Area)
“Two decades ago, voters called for the site to be fully cleaned to the most rigorous standards. A stance recently reiterated by Shamann Walton, President of the San Francisco Board...