Keeping up with the past, present, and future of the onetime Navy base at the center of a toxic waste cleanup scandal.
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Hunters Point Shipyard fraud scandal: Everything you need to know
Keeping up with the past, present, and future of the onetime Navy base rocked by toxic cleanup fraud allegations
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January 23, 2020
Shipyard radiation tests around housing were sound, scientist panel says, but questions remain
A review says the SF Shipyard isn’t radioactive, but didn’t address deeper concerns about the scandal-plagued real-estate project.
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December 19, 2019
U.S. Navy dinged for pushing for higher radioactivity allowances at Hunters Point
Clean-up standards could present potential long-term hazards.
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April 29, 2019
State inspection says no dangerous radiation at last Hunters Point site
The uninhabited hillside zone presents "no radiological hazards" according to the CDPH.
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April 19, 2019
Navy declares ‘no radiological health risk’ at Treasure Island
"Work performed for radiological monitoring and compliance support has been determined to be consistent and accurate."
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January 17, 2019
Firm at center of Hunters Point fraud scandal rewarded with more government work
Company also transferred workers from beleaguered SF project to other radioactive cleanups.
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January 15, 2019
Federal government sues over Hunters Point cleanup fraud
Tetra Tech the center of legal storm even as it enjoys huge state contracts.
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January 11, 2019
Company mired in Hunters Point Shipyard scandal gets major fire cleanup contract
Tetra Tech, responsible for questionable radiation testing in Hunters Point, nabbed a record-breaking deal on the Camp Fire.
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October 19, 2018
Reports suggest Navy spread radiation all over Hunters Point, never checked for contamination
Review of Navy records for SF’s biggest redevelopment project reveals "deeply flawed" process, say researchers.
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August 1, 2018
Pelosi: EPA, Navy must answer for Hunters Point Shipyard development scandal [update]
Minority Leader pushes for investigations into how regulators allowed "massive manipulation and falsification" of city’s biggest redevelopment project.
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July 25, 2018
Hunters Point homeowners sue developer and scandalized engineering firm
Second lawsuit filed following revelations that much of $1 billion cleanup of radioactive, toxic waste was faked.
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July 12, 2018
Hunters Point shipyard contamination testing won’t include housing
Scanning of sidewalks, parks in housing near radioactive waste dump to begin July 16.
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June 22, 2018
Praised plan to test Hunters Point shipyard housing could miss radioactivity
"It is a PR undertaking, not a serious effort to identify whether there is contamination."
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June 15, 2018
Navy: Hunters Point retesting to begin this fall, but process could take year or more
"We want the public to be confident in this," says Navy.
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May 31, 2018
How the SF mayoral candidates might address the Hunters Point shipyard fraud scandal
Four politicos vying for city’s highest office talk retesting, court orders, and vagaries.
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May 14, 2018
Pelosi, Farrell lead calls to re-test housing at toxic Hunters Point shipyard
"It feels the Navy is constantly sweeping something under the rug," said Supervisor Malia Cohen.
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May 11, 2018
Hunters Point re-testing plan doesn’t include toxic areas ‘tested’ by firm at center of scandal
Navy’s insistence that two areas, including former shipyard’s most toxic site, are free from fraud scandal contradicted by records, whistleblowers.
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May 4, 2018
Hunters Point shipyard housing: Fraud coupled with contamination discoveries fuel doubt, calls to test area
Navy may have stored radioactive chemicals and ran radiation lab on hilltop area that was long-assured to be clean—and where whistleblowers say they discovered toxic contamination.
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May 4, 2018
Former Hunters Point shipyard cleanup workers plead guilty to fraud
Two former supervisors at Tetra Tech EC, the company at the center of a widening fraud scandal at the former Navy shipyard in Hunters Point, have pleaded guilty to faking documents and were sentenced to federal prison terms.
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April 25, 2018
Hunters Point cleanup fraud: Accused contractor says we didn’t do it
Tetra Tech, the beleaguered billion-dollar environmental firm accused of faking the cleanup at the toxic former Navy shipyard at Hunters Point, at last offered a rejoinder.
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April 10, 2018
Faked cleanup at Hunters Point Shipyard much worse than Navy estimates
90 to 97 percent of cleanup at two sites is questionable—"biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history."
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March 13, 2018
City accepted Hunters Point shipyard land that may still be radioactive
EPA, state health regulators approved transfer in 2015 despite awareness of fraud allegations.
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January 31, 2018
Navy: Do-over of $250 million cleanup at Hunters Point necessary
Unknown delay for city’s biggest redevelopment project.
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January 26, 2018
Almost half of toxic cleanup at Hunters Point Shipyard is questionable or faked, according to initial review
City’s goals for housing, affordable housing in doubt after fraud at city’s biggest redevelopment project "much worse" than thought.
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October 24, 2016
Shipyard architect David Adjaye wants “more natural” Hunters Point
The site finally has housing, but is it yet a neighborhood?
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October 19, 2016
Under $700K Club: Shipyard mini-flip asks $575,000
Ship-shape Shipyard home first sold almost exactly a year ago for a tiny bit more than $500K and now returns asking a slightly less tiny bit more than that, making it a rare two-time candidate for the Under $700K Club.