Clinics

After clinic files lawsuit, the U.S. Navy will expand an ongoing toxic cleanup of the 500-acre San Francisco Shipyard project at the site of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on two land parcels where soil sampling unearthed radioactive objects last year, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/1/24

Berkeley Law’s Environmental Clinic, on behalf of environmental nonprofit Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, filed a lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Navy and Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, regarding the cleanup of Superfund site Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, Daily California, 7/3/24

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 Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and the UC Berkeley Law Clinic filed the lawsuit Friday, calling for, among other demands, 100% of the land to be retested for radioactive contaminants. They claim the Navy was obligated to do so, but never did, San Francisco Examiner, 7/2/24