[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: U.S. to clean Bien Hoa (Vietnam)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base

BBC
April 20, 2019

The US has launched a multi-million dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange.

The ten-year programme, unveiled more than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, will cost $183m (£141m).

The site at Bien Hoa airport, outside Ho Chi Minh City, is considered the most contaminated in the country.

Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48000185

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