[CPEO-IRF] Hunters Point (CA) construction dust

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer sued over Hunters Point toxics
Executives say their firm retaliated against them for questioning 
construction dust

Lance Williams and Robert Selna
San Francisco Chronicle
March 18, 2007

A development firm building 1,600 new homes at the old Hunters Point 
Naval Shipyard has allowed clouds of toxic construction dust to escape 
from the site, exposing neighbors and schoolchildren to potentially 
harmful, airborne asbestos, two company executives say.

Lennar Corp., which is Mayor Gavin Newsom's choice to take over the 
environmental cleanup of the entire former San Francisco naval base as 
part of a plan to build a new 49ers football stadium, imposed a "code of 
silence" last year to prevent workers from reporting violations of state 
and city clean-air rules, contended Gary McIntyre, Lennar's project 
manager, and Clementine Clarke, the company's community liaison.

McIntyre, Clarke and Ceola Richardson, an administrative assistant for 
the company, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday 
claiming Lennar violated state law by retaliating against them for 
raising questions about the dust problems at the construction site. They 
also claim that they were victims of racial discrimination in the 
workplace. They are seeking unspecified financial damages.

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For the entire article, see
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/HUNTERS.TMP

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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