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SF SHIPYARD ACTIVISTS FRUSTRATED BY NAVAL OFFICIALS ON ALLEGED SOIL TEST FRAUD

by | April 12, 2018
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement. ‘The Navy created an environmental nightmare on this stretch of the San Francisco Bay but, instead of cleaning it up, has spent the past several years compounding it.'” Read more . . . Read ...

LETTER FROM EPA REPORTS NEW PROBLEMS WITH RADIATION DATA AT HUNTERS POINT

by | April 11, 2018
From: KRON4 “Instead of half the soil samples conducted by a subcontractor being questionable, they found 90 percent of the soil survey from Parcel B and 97 percent of samples from Parcel G of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard are suspect. That letter was obtained by the DC-based ...

EPA REVIEW OF CONTAMINATED HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD FINDS MORE FALSIFIED SOIL TESTING DATA

by | April 10, 2018
From: San Francisco Examiner “The EPA’s December review of the data was released Tuesday by the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act. In its report, the EPA raised ...

EPA LETTER REVEALS NEW PROBLEMS WITH HUNTERS POINT RADIATION DATA

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From: NBC Bay Area A December 2017 letter sent by the EPA to the Navy – and obtained by a Washington D.C. advocacy group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – explains that on about 40 percent of the shipyard, the EPA found between 90 percent and 97 percent ...

FAKE SOIL TESTING AT SAN FRANCISCO SHIPYARD SITE COULD BE WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

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From: San Francisco Business Times “What makes these findings so remarkable is that the Navy was on notice for years that it had a major data meltdown on its hands yet is still trying to cook the books.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

WHO CAN STOP JEFF SESSIONS FROM BREAKING HIS RECUSAL PLEDGE? PROBABLY NO ONE.

by | April 9, 2018
From: Mother Jones “It’s hard to think of a scenario where an attorney general would be held to account because of administrative violations,” says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which represents federal whistleblowers. He ...
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