Agent Orange

Against the Grain

The EPA and the Chemical Industry: A Cosy Alliance

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The Environmental Protection Agency is tasked with safeguarding the public from toxic exposure.  But Jonathan Latham, executive director of the Bioscience Research Project, says that The Poison Papers — an enormous trove of documents — indicate that the EPA and the chemical industry often work hand in hand to mislead us into thinking that toxic chemicals … Continued

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Vietnam, Agent Orange! Souls of Poor Folk!

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Fifty years later, babies in Vietnam are still being born disabled by U.S.-sprayed Agent Orange.  We hear what’s being done to take responsibility.  PLUS: a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies analyzes the deep roots and eternal impacts of poverty in the U.S.  We talk with Phyllis Bennis.  With host Kris Welch.