Earlier this month, the Navy confirmed a detection of airborne plutonium-239, the same isotope used in nuclear weapons, at its
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Ex-contractor to pay $97 million over fraud claims at S.F. Hunters Point Shipyard (SF Chronicle) The former Navy contractor that
Feds in Settlement Talks with Former Contractor Accused of Fraud in S.F. Shipyard Cleanup (SF Chronicle) A decade-long legal fight
Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point The San Francisco Public Press sifted through thousands of pages of obscure
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EPA and Navy announce Hunters Point shoreline cleanup plan (NBC Bay Area) Federal environmental officials unveiled Thursday what they hailed
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Navy’s Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup in San Francisco Moves Underwater (KQED) Bayview residents, including Arieann Harrison, have advocated for the […]
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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
‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup (SF Examiner) An environmental advocacy group is suing the
Greenaction Files Lawsuit Against US Navy and EPA on Hunters Point Cleanup Representatives from Greenaction for Health Environmental Justice have
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Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund Site Has Been Badly Mishandled, Lawsuit Alleges (KQED) An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit
Critique by CBG of the Navy’s Draft Fifth Five-Year Review of Hunters Point Click here to read our critique. Click
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US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site (KQED) A recent report from the US Navy confirms
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Radioactive objects turn up at S.F. site slated to become huge waterfront neighborhood — again (SF Chronicle) For the second
The ongoing testing on the old Hunters Point Naval shipyard has turned up a piece of radioactive glass and another
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The discovery, announced this week, is the latest in a steady drip of troubling findings at one of the city’s
US navy accused of cover-up over radioactive shipyard waste (The Guardian) The US navy is covering up dangerous levels of
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Fresh concerns raised about the cleanup of Hunters Point Shipyard (SF Examiner) On Thursday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a
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A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope
In the long-running battle for environmental justice, the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco is a crucial beachhead. […]
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Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), recently published an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner.
