Representatives from Greenaction for Health and 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 responsible for cleaning the roughly 500-acre shipyard on the city’s southeastern waterfront in preparation for its planned redevelopment, and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, which oversees the effort, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/28/24
U.S. Navy to be sued by environmental group, represented by the clinic, over cleanup of radioactive materials at S.F. shipyard
Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund site has been badly mishandled, clinic lawsuit alleges
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, KQED, 6/28/24
Clinic Students Work to Defend Library Patrons’ Right to Privacy
Berkeley Law, 5/31/2024
Utah Should Abolish All Juvenile Court Fees, Fines and Costs Says New Report from PAC National Partner Gault Center
The Gault Center, 05/15/2024
Delaware Juvenile Court Judge Cites PAC Work in Calling for End to Fees and Fines
Reason, 03/13/2024
PAC Partners in Washington on Undoing the Injustice of Juvenile Fee and Fines
The Spokesman-Review, 03/02/2024
Thanks to clinic work, U.N. human rights advisors conclude Chemours and DuPont knew about risks but kept making toxic PFAS chemicals
A U.N. human rights panel calls on the U.N. Environment Assembly to take on “forever chemicals” at a meeting in Nairobi, citing a North Carolina PFAS plant as an example of environmental negligence, Inside Climate News, 2/26/24
U.N. experts say DuPont and Chemours generated extensive contamination with toxic “forever chemicals” in North Carolina
American chemical companies DuPont and Chemours have discharged toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the local environment, disregarding the rights and wellbeing of residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, say U.N. experts.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2/21/24
Following clinic complaint, U.N. Human Rights Council experts call out Chemours and DuPont for U.S. PFAS contamination
The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a press statement calling out American chemical companies, Chemours and DuPont, for “disregarding the rights and wellbeing” of residents in North Carolina, who have been unknowingly exposed to extreme levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for decades.
Environmental Law Clinic, 2/21/24
PAC’s Jeff Selbin Weighs in on Impending SCOTUS Homelessness Case
CalMatters, 01/17/2024