San Francisco, EPA Fight Over Hunters Point Shipyard Radiation Cleanup
by NBC Bay Area | October 5, 2022
In the memo to a public employee environmental watchdog group, known as “Peer,” the EPA states its land use rules are designed to “ensure protection of human health but also to ensure the integrity of remedies in the long term.” “They are not as protective as they ...
Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
by NBC Bay Area | May 19, 2020
“The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a rule “reinterpretation” that would allow commercial landfills to start taking in low level radioactive waste, in lieu of the four currently licensed disposal facilities nationwide. Critics, like Jeff Ruch, West Coast head ...
Ousted Western EPA Chief Speaks Out
by NBC Bay Area | February 12, 2020
“The ousted head of the Western region office of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday he believes he fell victim to his popularity with Democrats, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had praised him for his work on the cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San ...