Shipyard activists take aim at Newsom over Camp Fire cleanup contract

Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing calls to intervene after a company linked to the soil testing scandal at the Hunters Point Shipyard received a state contract worth as much as $250 million to clean up wildfire debris.

Hunters Point residents who claim to have suffered health impacts as a result of the botched and allegedly fraudulent Hunters Point cleanup urged the governor on Monday to rescind a contract that a state disaster agency awarded to Tetra Tech, Inc. for the management of debris removal from Butte County in the wake of the deadly Camp Fire.

“It is a slap in the face of the injuries that these people have been suffering for years,” said Charles Bonner, an attorney who filed a class-action lawsuit against the company on behalf of neighborhood residents last May. “It is an insult.”

Tetra Tech, Inc. is the owner of Tetra Tech EC, Inc., which collected data samples during the cleanup of the former military base that the federal government has found to be largely unreliable. In 2017, two Tetra Tech supervisors pleaded guilty to falsifying soil samples in federal court.

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