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

by Elizabeth Duan | January 1, 2021
““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 ...

2020 hindsight on dirty deeds done dirt cheap at Hunters Point

by Elizabeth Duan | October 20, 2020
“The former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on the edge of the San Francisco Bay has been a source of contentious controversy over the past decade. The EPA Superfund site became highly contaminated during the decades in which the shipyard cleaned and refurbished naval vessels that had ...