[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "Over 107,000 cubic meters of dioxin-contaminated soil treated at Vietnam’s Bien Hoa Airbase"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Over 107,000 cubic meters of dioxin-contaminated soil treated at Vietnam’s Bien Hoa Airbase

by Hong Ngan - A Loc
Tuoi Tre News (Vietnam)
January 18, 2025

With joint efforts by Vietnam and the U.S. to address war-era contamination, over 107,000 cubic meters of dioxin-contaminated soil across 13 hectares in and around Bien Hoa Airbase in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam have been excavated and treated since 2019.

The figures were reported to a delegation comprising Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense, and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper during their trip to the airbase area on Friday to inspect the Bien Hoa dioxin remediation project’s phase one.

The delegation reviewed areas undergoing dioxin remediation and those planned for handover by 2025.

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For the entire article, see
https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20250118/over-107000-cubic-meters-of-dioxincontaminated-soil-treated-at-vietnams-bien-hoa-airbase/84018.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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