[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Agent Orange's Legacy in Vietnam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agent Orange's lethal legacy: At former U.S. bases in Vietnam, a potent 
poison is clear and present danger
Bases remain polluted from defoliants, underscoring the urgency of a 
solvable problem

By Jason Grotto
Chicago Tribune
December 9, 2009

DA NANG, Vietnam

Part 4 of a Tribune investigation finds that a former U.S. air bases in 
Vietnam remain highly polluted by defoliants, but the U.S. has done 
little to clean up the sites it contaminated during the war. Complete 
coverage >>

When a small Canadian environmental firm started collecting soil samples 
on a former U.S. air base in a remote Vietnam valley, Thomas Boivin and 
other scientists were skeptical they'd find evidence proving herbicides 
used there by the U.S. military decades ago still posed a health threat.

But results showed levels of the cancer-causing poison dioxin were far 
greater than guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
for residential areas.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/agentorange/chi-agent-orange4dec09,0,7839395.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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