By the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition...
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Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange
By Fred Wilcox. An investigation of the scientific, legal, and moral issues raised by the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young...
Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical & The Toxic Century
By Jack Doyle From its “accident” at Bhopal by its Union Carbide company to Agent Orange, from Napalm to Plutonium, Dow Chemical has been at the center of many of the worst chemical disasters in...
Monsanto Superfund Site, Nitro, West Virginia
EPA Website In March 2002, an inspector from West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) Hazardous Waste group discovered a waste material on the riverbank of the Kanawha River...
Dow Chemical Superfund Site, Midland and the Tittabawassee River, MI
EPA Website The Dow Chemical Company facility in Midland, Michigan, began operating in 1897. The 1,900-acre facility abuts the Tittabawassee River; most of the plant is located on the east side of...