Rounding out the Toxic Year
Things are wrapping up but hardly slowing down in the final episode of Toxic's first season. Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes discuss three stories th...
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A billion-dollar cleanup of a former Navy base in San Francisco has been rocked by fraud. San Francisco Chronicle reporters Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes explore the history of that shipyard and other Navy installations that handled toxic materials, and what’s being done to make sure the land is safe enough for new housing and other development.
The health official who helped sell shipyard homes
Cynthia Dizikes and Jason Fagone talk about their latest investigation, into how San Francisco's top health regulator overseeing the former Hunters Po...
The Watchdog
Daniel Hirsch, retired head of the UC Santa Cruz environmental and nuclear policy program and an expert on Superfund cleanups, talks to Jason Fagone a...
What the Parcel A retest revealed
The state says its retest of Parcel A, the area of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard where people are living, and where soil samples were falsif...
Why this story matters
Cynthia Dizikes and Jason Fagone take a step back from the fast-moving story about the cleanup of Hunters Point shipyard and other toxic former milita...
Left in the dirt
As tons of toxic soil piled up around cops who worked at the Hunters Point shipyard, San Francisco assured them they were safe. But the city never kn...
Obsolete safety standards
A team of researchers has published a report saying that — separate from any fraud — the cleanup of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Fra...
Department of Justice backs whistle-blowers
Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes discuss the Department of Justice's plans to sue Tetra Tech EC, revealed in court files made public last week. Tetra ...
Our Toxic story so far
When Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes of the San Francisco Chronicle began reporting about the cleanup of radioactive former military sites around the...
Building 606
Six former San Francisco cops who were stationed at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard — where ships were brought for decontamination after the B...