[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, RADIATION: "Navy ducks suit over radioactive waste cleanup of San Francisco shipyard"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy ducks suit over radioactive waste cleanup of San Francisco shipyard
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a 400-acre former military facility in San Francisco, is slated for a massive residential redevelopment.

By MARGARET ATTRIDGE 
Courthouse News Service
March 30, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The Navy secured a victory Monday in a case over the radiological cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard near San Francisco.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria acknowledged there were some outstanding questions about the Navy’s handling of the former shipyard’s cleanup; however, they were outside the scope of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice’s lawsuit, he said.

“Most concerningly, the Navy has not explained why it has made so little progress toward retesting the soil in the eight years since Tetra Tech’s fraud was revealed. And given the lack of reliable soil testing, it is hard to see how the Navy can be confident that the radiological contamination is not a risk to the people currently living and working near the site,” he said.

“But Greenaction has made clear that this is not within the scope of its challenge to the Hunters Point cleanup," the Barack Obama appointee added, grantingsummary judgment to the Navy and dismissing the case with prejudice.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.courthousenews.com/navy-ducks-suit-over-radioactive-waste-cleanup-of-san-francisco-shipyard/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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