CounterPunch: The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard
The Gaslighting of San Francisco at the Hunters Point Shipyard
This article excerpt features Government Accountability Project’s Senior Environmental Officer, Lesley Pacey and was originally published here.
“Whether there’s more than meets the eye with ALS Houston being scapegoated in East Palestine, Ohio remains unclear. The alleged devotion to transparency is already in question, though, due to how the EPA has been stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in D.C., which sought records and communications surrounding the lab incident.
‘The reason I filed the FOIA is that I suspected EPA wasn’t telling the public the full story. The public deserves transparency about what EPA and Tetra Tech knew, when it knew it, and whether testing results that communities rely upon can be trusted,’ GAP Senior Environmental Officer Lesley Pacey said by email, further explaining how the allegations against ALS Houston sounded ‘eerily familiar’ to
another scandal. ‘We’ve seen this before at Hunters Point, where two Tetra Tech supervisors went to prison for fraudulent environmental sampling practices. Here, we had another large-scale environmental contamination event where EPA and its contractor Tetra Tech were accusing two lab employees of falsely elevating detections of a dangerous contaminant.’
Pacey added that her knowledge of increasing dioxin contamination and the recent proliferation of chronic disease and cancers in East Palestine, Ohio, led the complaint against Tetra Tech’s subcontractor to raise her suspicions. The fact that EPA’s Mike Collins compared the March 2026 data quality control issue at the Navy’s contractor lab with the ALS Houston incident likewise raised this reporter’s suspicions in
a similar fashion.”
Mary Allain 2026-06-16T16:26:49-04:00 June 16th, 2026 | East Palestine , Environment , EPA , In The News | Share This Post Facebook X LinkedIn