'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012
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Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 04.23.2012
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn variety that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012
These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.
Jordan Flaherty | Posted 09.28.2011
Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility has broken with his own past practices, as well as the evidence compiled by scientists and the experience of Gulf Coast residents, and refused to pay health claims filed by Gulf Coast residents.
AP | Posted 08.17.2011
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam on Friday started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage ...
Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011
Monsanto has an interesting clause in its seed contract. The Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement has a waiver that shifts all liability from any...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Betty Deudon was only a schoolgirl standing by Long Island City High with a classmate when the handsome French sailors strode by. "Let's pick them up," Betty told her girlfriend.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011
Jackson looked worse than an oiled pelican in Barataria Bay as she tried to extricate herself from Mikulski's sticky questions. The Senator from Maryland demanded to know why Jackson did not know the extent of her authority as head of the EPA.
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's big news stories -- the wars, the eco-disasters -- all seem to have the same gaping hole in them. This hole is lack of awareness, and its thru...
Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.25.2011
By Azadeh Shahshahani and John Zientowski Today marks the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. For millions of Vietnamese and hundreds of...
Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
Politics Daily reported Friday that scientists have found signs of another potential threat to our soldiers in Afghanistan: high levels of environmental toxins that can cause brain damage.
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer tha...
Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
Every Spring I enjoy the yellow trees that bloom in the Arts District. They're the only ones in downtown Los Angeles that I have been able to find. They make me really happy.
Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011
Thirty-five years later, seeing the horrors of Agent Orange I know that this war is not yet over. Being there taught me one more time -- political perceptions are to be challenged, not trusted.
Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011
Wandering through youth centers for disabled kids in Saigon and Da Nang has left me shocked and hopeful.
Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011
I am here on a week-long, Ford-Foundation-sponsored trip to look at the residual impact of our country's use of Agent Orange on the people and the land here.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Originally published on The Green Fork. I've been working on a broad range of food and environmental issues since 2005, but food politics became espe...
Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
In honor of Veteran's Day, the HuffPost asked readers to send in stories and videos about those who served and how war has impacted your life. You can...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011
Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011
The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.
Trish Kinney | Posted 05.25.2011
Three new medical conditions may gain presumptive status as to their relationship to Agent Orange exposure. I am heartbroken that we haven't been there for vets when they needed us most.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack. Jack came from a hard-up family, but he considered himself a savvy, enterprising lad. To prove it, he ...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims.
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011
Zak Wachtendonk, who died in March, a month after his 30th birthday, was the son of a Vietnam vet who had been exposed to Agent Orange.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012