[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, HEALTH: "Renewed call for shipyard excavation moratorium – the legal legacy of harm to the Hunters Point [CA] community"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Renewed call for shipyard excavation moratorium – the legal legacy of harm to the Hunters Point community

by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
San Francisco Bay View
January 1, 2021

“We are fighting this toxic genocide all the way to the top of the government ladder.” – Charles A Bonner and A. Cabral Bonner, attorneys for plaintiffs in the Hunters Point Community Lawsuit

“On behalf of named plaintiffs and thousands of other victims to be named, including residents, deceased family members and unborn children,” renowned civil rights attorneys Bonner & Bonner filed a $27 billion lawsuit on May 1, 2018, for damages arising from “generational threats of cancer and other incurable illnesses attributed to the documented fraud perpetrated by US Navy contractor Tetra Tech in assuring Hunters Point residents and the City of San Francisco that the radiation contaminated land at the Hunter Point shipyard had been cleaned.” 

In that historic filing, attorneys for the Hunters Point community lawsuit, Charles and A. Cabral Bonner affirmed, “Scientists, environmentalists and the people of Hunters Point have been pushed back and discredited by government officials and developers … until now!”

In a statement issued in June 2020, Bonner & Bonner notified 9,000 plaintiffs that a 60-day Notice of Proposition 65 Violation had been filed with the California Department of Justice and received by Attorney General Xavier Becerra. That filing was prompted by video captured by Hunters Point hilltop residents of deep soil excavations on the southern hillside in the region designated Parcel A-2. 


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For the entire article, see
https://sfbayview.com/2021/01/renewed-call-for-shipyard-excavation-moratorium-the-legal-legacy-of-harm-to-the-hunters-point-community/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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