Agent Orange

'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

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"Agent Orange" Corn: Biotech Only Winner in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Gmos, 2, Genetically Engineered Foods, Genetically Modified Food, 4d, Agent Orange, Superweeds, Center for Food Safety, Food News

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.

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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America's Heartland

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Corn, Dow Chemical, Beef, Roundup Herbicide, Sustainable Farming, Agent Orange, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Green News

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.

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Devastating Report Exposes Unequal Treatment of BP Illness Claims

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Bp, Bp Claims, Environment, Agent Orange, Gulf Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast, September 11th, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

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.

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Vietnam Starts Joint Agent Orange Cleanup With U.S.

AP | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Agent Orange Cleanup, US Agent Orange, Vietnam Agent Orange, Vietnam Agent Orange Cleanup, Health, Environment, Agent Orange, Vietnam US Agent Orange, Green News

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam on Friday started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage ...

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Not Monsanto's Fault! Ever.

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gmos, Pathogens, Monsanto, Monsanto Farmers, Organic Farming, Agent Orange, Farmers, Green News

Monsanto has an interesting clause in its seed contract. The Monsanto Technology Stewardship Agreement has a waiver that shifts all liability from any...

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Astoria Characters: The Ageless Storyteller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Astoria, Kirk Douglas, French, Bride, Sailor, Agent Orange, Bayside, Paris, Long Island City High, Wedding, Betty Deudon, MW Houck, Vietnam War, Casino, World War II, Slot Machine, New York News, Astoria Characters, New York News

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.

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Mikulski Slams EPA on Dispersants: "Gave Me Heartburn"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Appropriations Committee, Admiral Thad Allen, Toxic, Maryland, Toluene, Agent Orange, Epa, Barabara Mikulski, Dispersants, BP Oil Spill, Lisa Jackson, Nalco, Gulf Coast, Benzene, Senate, Voc, Oil, Gulf of Mexico, Green News

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.

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Revenge of the Weeds

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Permaculture, Monoculture, War, Addiction, Agribusiness, Aboriginal Culture, Herbicides, Agent Orange, English Language, Politics News

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...

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The Last Ghost of War

Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Lawyers Guild, Dioxin, Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow, Vietnam War, Veterans, Politics News

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...

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The New Agent Orange? Scientists Sound Alarm on Toxic Sand in Afghanistan

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics Daily, Soldiers, Environment, Brain Damage, Afghanistan, Iraq, Agent Orange, Chemicals, Toxins, Green News

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.

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Farmers May Return To Harsh Herbicides, Chemicals To Battle Roundup Resistant Weeds

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Weeds, Roundup, Cotton, Agriculture, Herbicides, Superweeds, Monsanto, Agent Orange, 2 4-D, Dicamba, Runoff, Conventional Farming, Resistant, Wildlife, Green News

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...

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Remembrance of Things Past: The Original Downtown Los Angeles Arts District and the Yellow Trees

Lisa Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Traction Avenue, Joel Bloom, Bloom's General Store, Lifestyle, Little Tokyo, UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Department, Artists, Agent Orange, Downtown Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, Vietnam Veterans, Arts, Contemporary Art, Caribbean Trumpet Tree, Al's Bar, Wurstküche, Los Angeles News

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.

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Vietnam: The Troops Go Home but the War Does Not End

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam War, Religion News

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.

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The Effects of Agent Orange: An Interreligious Investigation in Vietnam

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Vietnam Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam War, Religion News

Wandering through youth centers for disabled kids in Saigon and Da Nang has left me shocked and hopeful.

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Why Is This Rabbi in Vietnam?

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam Agent Orange, Vietnam War, Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Religion News

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.

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Stuff My Dad Says about Monsanto - a "Roundup," If You Will

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange, Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Precautionary Principle, Food Politics, Genetically Modified Food, Vietnam, Usda, Roundup-Ready-Sugar-Beets, Monsanto, Green News

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...

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Veteran's Day: Your Stories and Memories

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Marines, US Soldiers, Vietnam War, Veterans Day, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Iraq, Veterans, Politics News

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...

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Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize, Obama, Vietnamese Victims, Agent Orange, Vietnam War, War Crime, War Crimes, War Crimes Vietnam, The New York Times, NY Times, War Crimes Agent Orange, World News

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.

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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Healthy Living News

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.

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Vietnam, Agent Orange and Secretary Shinseki's Timely Decisions

Trish Kinney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans Administration, The Wall, Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ptsd, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Eric Shinseki, Politics News

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.

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Meatless Monday: Jack and the GMO Beanstalk

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup, Monsanto, Michael Taylor, Fda, Jack, Agent Orange, Gmo, Ogre, Jeffrey Smith, H.R. 2749, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, Green News

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 ...

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Obama Must Live Up to Campaign Pledge on Vieques Cleanup

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Lisa Jackson, Napalm, Vieques Puerto Rico, Alan Grayson, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Mercury Poisoning, Justice Department, Depleted Uranium, Eric Holder, Arsenic, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Bush Administration, Contamination, Sovereign Immunity, US Navy, Green News

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.

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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Vietnam, Dioxin, Agent Orange, World News

Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims.

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Peace Rising

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Memorial Day, Vietnam War, Afghanistan, Birth Defects, Agent Orange, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Veterans, Politics News

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.

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