OPINION: As Speaker of the House during this short pivotal period, Representative Pelosi will wield extraordinary influence over the terms and conditions of the budgets and other critical authorizations for both the Navy and the EPA.
As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enters her last weeks in leadership, she has the unique opportunity to leave her city an invaluable gift that has eluded it for decades — a fully remediated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
Further, the EPA is letting the Navy relax cleanup levels to the extent that residents would be subjected to much higher radiation exposures, even if they abide by the land use restrictions. This is not the cleanup San Franciscans envisioned or wanted. In 2000, 86% of voters passed Proposition P to demand that the shipyard “be cleaned to a level which would enable the unrestricted use of the property — the highest standard for cleanup established by .” Shortly thereafter, the County Board of Supervisors codified the Prop. P mandate as official policy.
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