[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: Bien Hoa (Vietnam) Agent Orange cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UN starts $5M Agent Orange cleanup at Vietnam base

Associated Press
June 29, 2010

HANOI, Vietnam - The United Nations has launched a $5 million project to 
clean up Agent Orange contamination at a former U.S military air base in 
Vietnam, the world body said Tuesday.

The project will focus on dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa airport on 
the outskirts of southern Ho Chi Minh City. It is one of three former 
American air bases where U.S. forces mixed, stored and loaded the 
defoliant onto planes for spraying missions during the Vietnam War to 
destroy jungle hideouts of enemy Communist forces.

Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million 
gallons (41 million liters) of Agent Orange across large swaths of 
southern Vietnam. Dioxin is a toxic chemical used in the herbicide that 
has been linked to cancers, birth defects and other ailments.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jz2saSf9srDQ3AZz8whZWwQEG6hQD9GKOIV02

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