The dioxin TCDD clean-up efforts at former military bases and other Vietnam hotspots are ongoing. However, the lesser-told story was the environmental and human health impacts on the communities and chemical plant workers who manufactured Agent Orange and other herbicides that became contaminated ...
Agent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that
Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The U.S. program, codenamed Operation Ranch Hand, sprayed more than 20 million gallons of various herbicides over Vietnam...
The burial of Agent Orange poses a serious environmental hazard. If toxic dioxin from corroded storage drums seeps into the Nakdong River, the consequences would be grave. The dumping, which took place 34 years ago, can trigger public anger and distrust toward American military bases as well as...
Agent Orange What Is Agent Orange? The various herbicides used during Operation Ranch Hand were referred to by the colored marks on the 55-gallon drums in which the chemicals were shipped and stored. In addition to Agent Orange, the U.S. military used herbicides named Agent Pink, Agent Green...
The soil in and around some of the US and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) military bases continue to have extremely high levels of dioxin. The US military bases where the barrels of Agent Orange were off-loaded, stored and then pumped into the spray planes or “brown water” ...
Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans, originally ordered by Pub.L. No. 96-151, 93 Stat. 1097 (1979). Both the Veterans Administration and Congress are actively studying the effects of Agent Orange on veterans. The Vietnam Veterans' Agent Orange Relief Act: Hearings on H.R. 1961 Before the ...
The use of the Agent Orange family of herbicides (the so-called “rainbow herbicides”) left nearly a quarter of Vietnam defoliated, and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), an impurity in the Agent Orange mixture and a suspected carcinogen, has left a devastating long-term impact...
Every single military member exposed to Agent Orange should be declared as 100% disabled and provided with compensation to the date of their exposures. With all the money the United States government wastes on any given day, why not fork over some cash to those who fought in one of those ...
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