[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES: Agent Orange at Fort Ritchie (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agent Orange was tested at Fort Ritchie Army base

By JULIE E. GREENE
Hagerstown Herald-Mail (MD)
February 20, 2011

Agent Orange was among the herbicides studied at the former Fort  
Ritchie Army base in 1963, according to U.S. Department of Defense  
and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs documents found online.

The owner of the former Army base property in northeast Washington  
County, Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT), found out last week  
that “testing and the use of tactical defoliants/herbicides” were  
conducted at Fort Ritchie and issued a news release Friday noting  
that the trust now expects further delays in litigation relating to a  
2005 lawsuit.

That lawsuit resulted in a federal judge ordering a halt to further  
redevelopment at the former Army base in November 2009.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-agent-orange-was-tested-at-fort- 
ritchie-army-base-20110220,0,7852532.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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