[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hunters Point shipyard litigation

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New legal challenge revives 'huge war' over Hunters Point's toxic legacy

By Lauren Hepler
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
June 18, 2021

Marie Harrison warned for years that the Hunters Point shipyard where she once worked on San Francisco’s southeastern edge was a slow-motion public health disaster.

Parts of the former Navy shipyard were contaminated during the Cold War by fallout from ships brought there after atomic-bomb tests. It’s a toxic legacy that left residents like Harrison, the mother of Bayview-Hunters Point’s environmental justice movement, to wonder if it might be connected to neighbors’ nosebleeds, breathing problems and tumors.

The Navy and public health officials long denied any links, and Harrison’s challenges ended abruptly two years ago, when she died of lung disease. Then, last year, her neighborhood became San Francisco’s COVID-19 epicenter.

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Late Thursday night, attorneys for the younger Harrison and 9,000 other Bayview-Hunters Point residents who are part of a class-action lawsuit asked a judge to halt construction at the former shipyard, unless multibillion-dollar developer Lennar Corporation and offshoot FivePoint Holdings can prove that they’re controlling the release of toxic materials as required by state law.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/New-legal-challenge-revives-huge-war-over-16257916.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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