Month: January 2015

Toxic soldiers: A Portland woman among thousands of Army vets … Street Roots News-Dec 18, 2014 Oregon hosts only one of the DoD Superfund sites: Umatilla Army Depot in Hermiston. The depot was placed on the list in the mid 1980s, and … Toxic Trash Contamination on US Military Bases Center for Research on Globalization-Dec 8, 2014 Some producing virtual permanent contamination. … [Read More…]

Pentagon puts budget concerns ahead of Fort McClellan troops’ welfare The Pentagon doesn’t want to spend the money to alert hundreds of thousands of soldiers who served at a once-contaminated Army base that they may have been exposed to toxins. “The cost of attempting to identify all these individuals, including the cost of media advertising, would be a significant burden on the Army’s [Read More…]

Contractor Submitted False Radiation Data at Hunters Point NBC Bay Area-Oct 13, 2014Share … with cleaning radioactive soil at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in … from a nuclear research lab that included radiation experiments and … Former Contractors Claim Hunters Point Cleanup is Botched NBC Bay Area-May 19, 2014 Radiation safety personnel who worked on the toxic cleanup of the Hunters Point [Read More…]

Treasure Island cleanup exposes Navy’s mishandling of its nuclear … Center For Investigative Reporting-Feb 25, 2014 “We found radiation, contaminated materials, in playgrounds and in areas that had … At the former Alameda Naval Air Station in the East Bay, plans ….. Cesium-137 is a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission that is easily . African American Worker Blew the Whistle on Treasure Island [Read More…]