Hunters Point
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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...
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EPA to Hunters Point: Pound sand. No cleanup as promised for Superfund site (SF Examiner)
Dan Hirsch has published an op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner on the EPA’s recent disclosure that it would not uphold the full cleanup at the Hunters Point Shipyard that...
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At Hunters Point Shipyard, ‘toxic bowl of soup’ cleanup may finally be in sight (SF Examiner)
“After years of bringing attention to the site’s environmental problems with little result, residents’ concerns may finally be taken seriously at City Hall. Notably, District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton proposed...
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Three SF supervisors, environmental groups seek ouster of health official after Chronicle investigation
Three San Francisco supervisors and a group of environmental activists are calling for a city public health official to be reassigned or fired, saying she misled the public about a...
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A Helicopter Scan for Radioactivity at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Had Limited value. The City Relied On It Anyway.
Read the full story by SF Chronicle here.
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Revisions to Hunters Point Radiation Testing Report Draw Fire
NBC Bay Area reports. Read the story here.
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Revisions to Hunters Point Radiation Testing Report Draw Fire
Read the NBC Bay Area news report here.
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Agencies to Leave Hunters Point so Contaminated it would be Unsafe to Garden
Strong Produce Garden Rules Eyed for Hunters Point Shipyard
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Panel’s Defense of Hunters Pt. Radiation Measurements Slammed
Experts Back Hunters Point Testing Process
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Report: Navy altered Hunters Point Cleanup to cover, not remove, toxic soil
CBG’s latest Hunters Point reports were featured in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 14, 2019. When the Navy began cleaning up its toxic shipyard in San Francisco in the...
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Three New Reports Released on Hunters Point Shipyard
Navy Broke Promise to Clean Up Contamination, Covering It Up Instead Rather than cleaning up the contamination at the troubled Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, the Navy is leaving much of...