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 the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites.
In the suit, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice calls for the U.S. Navy to retest the entire site and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen its oversight role of the cleanup. It also seeks a federal court order for the agencies to comply with cleanup law.
According to the suit, authorities still lack “a complete and accurate understanding” of how contaminated the site is, raising concerns because the city plans to allow developers to build thousands of homes there.”