New legal challenge revives ‘huge war’ over Hunters Point’s toxic legacy
7 min readJun 25, 2021
Marie Harrison warned for years that the Hunters Point shipyard where she once worked on San Francisco’s southeastern edge was a slow-motion public health disaster.
Parts of the former Navy shipyard were contaminated during the Cold War by fallout from ships brought there after atomic-bomb tests. It’s a toxic legacy that left residents like…