An environmental advocacy group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy for “egregious violations” during its cleanup of radioactive toxins at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. San Francisco-based Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and the UC Berkeley Law Clinic filed the lawsuit Friday, calling for, among other demands, 100% of the land to be retested for radioactive contaminants. They claim the Navy was obligated to do so, but never did, San Francisco Examiner, 7/2/24
‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup
U.S. Navy to be sued by environmental group, represented by the clinic, over cleanup of radioactive materials at S.F. shipyard
Representatives from Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice have told the Chronicle that the group plans to file a lawsuit in federal court on Friday naming the U.S. Navy, which is responsible for cleaning the roughly 500-acre shipyard on the city’s southeastern waterfront in preparation for its planned redevelopment, and the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, which oversees the effort, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/28/24
Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund site has been badly mishandled, clinic lawsuit alleges
An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites, KQED, 6/28/24
Thanks to clinic work, U.N. human rights advisors conclude Chemours and DuPont knew about risks but kept making toxic PFAS chemicals
A U.N. human rights panel calls on the U.N. Environment Assembly to take on “forever chemicals” at a meeting in Nairobi, citing a North Carolina PFAS plant as an example of environmental negligence, Inside Climate News, 2/26/24
U.N. experts say DuPont and Chemours generated extensive contamination with toxic “forever chemicals” in North Carolina
American chemical companies DuPont and Chemours have discharged toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the local environment, disregarding the rights and wellbeing of residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, say U.N. experts.
United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2/21/24
Following clinic complaint, U.N. Human Rights Council experts call out Chemours and DuPont for U.S. PFAS contamination
The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a press statement calling out American chemical companies, Chemours and DuPont, for “disregarding the rights and wellbeing” of residents in North Carolina, who have been unknowingly exposed to extreme levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for decades.
Environmental Law Clinic, 2/21/24
Environmental Law Clinic Fall 2023 Newsletter
Environmental Law Clinic, 12/22/23
After clinic files complaint, U.N. takes action on North Carolina PFAS contamination recognizing a U.S. violation of international human rights law
Environmental Law Clinic, 11/27/23
U.N. responds to clinic complaint, calling out Chemours, partner companies for human rights violations associated with PFAS
Port City Daily, 11/25/23
Director Claudia Polsky quoted in story on U.N. probing DuPont, Chemours over human rights harms from PFAS
Bloomberg Law, 11/24/23