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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.
A radiological screening yard beside police offices is the sort of detail that should stop you cold.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Toxic revisits Building 606 and the information reaching Hunters Point homebuyers.
Toxic's year-end roundup keeps its focus on two live Hunters Point Naval Shipyard stories, both centered on public reassurance and what prospective homebuyers were told.
A careful cleanup story that treats technical detail as a public-health issue.
Toxic turns the Hunters Point cleanup dispute into a plainspoken account of what happens when cleanup standards fall behind the science. Jason Fagoni and Daniel Hirsch connect outdated radiation assumptions, loose building thresholds, and the Tetra Tech fraud scandal to one…
Toxic frames the shipyard cleanup investigation as a public-interest story about oversight, trust, and accountability.
Toxic pulls back from the shipyard cleanup details to ask why the story matters at all. The hosts make a clear case for Superfund oversight as a basic public function: polluted sites are complex, expensive, and need scrutiny beyond the party tied to the contamination.
Toxic uses a 2007 city email to frame the safety questions raised by a radioactive-soil facility beside Building 606.
At the former Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, Toxic follows a troubling piece of civic geography: a radioactive-soil processing facility set beside Building 606, the busy office building where hundreds of police had been stationed for years.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
UFO disclosure with teeth.
Bleak news, deadpan jokes, no broadcast polish.
Australian investigations, followed from the ground up.
Jason Fagoni and Cynthia Dizekas revisit Building 606 at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, where a radiation test promised in July had been delayed for five months while about 40 city employees remained at the site.
Amy Brunel told shipyard homebuyers there was nothing to worry about, while agencies said contamination remained uncertain.
Jason Fagoni sits down with environmental cleanup expert Daniel Hirsch.
Toxic hosts Jason Fagoni and Cynthia Dizekas explain why the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard matters as a 500-acre former military site with potential housing, business, and tax-base implications.
Toxic hosts Jason Fagoni and Cynthia Dizekas investigate a radiological screening yard built beside police Building 606 at San Francisco's former Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard.
Reporters discuss their investigation into fraud and radioactive contamination at the Hunters Point shipyard and the shift to a weekly podcast format.