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Tics and Toxins: New Evidence Raises Pesticide Concerns in New York State Outbreak

Small amounts of DDT and its breakdown product, DDE, were detected on two soccer fields.

(NEW YORK CITY) - One Thursday last September, a crop-dusting plane swooped down over a cornfield in Western New York and dipped below the tree line, spraying an insecticide engineered to paralyze the nervous system of agricultural pests called earworms.

Senators Will Call on Senate to Pass Veterans Omnibus Legislation

Murray will ask for ...immediate passage of the Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 18th, U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Senator Richard Burr will make floor speeches to introduce "The Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act".

NIMBY, BANANA, BANDANA

A 3 Part Series On Development Opposition.

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - I’m hoping to help educate SNc browsers in a better understanding of environmental protectionists (ENVIROS) in my professional field, and also the genesis and evolution of anti-development concepts in general.

If not there already, protectionists ARE coming to a neighborhood near you soon.

Goldman Sachs, Monsanto and the Suspicious Drought

Why is no one is filing FOIAs about whether HAARP is being used to cause this drought that threatens agriculture here and thus the country itself?

(WASHINGTON DC) - As farmers are cutting down their corn in the Midwest and ranchers are selling off their cattle.

When is someone going to make the connection that HAARP is yet another part of the from-every-side onslaught against farming and ranching that is occurring here?

CLIMATE: Skeptic Group Takes Aim at Journalists

Journalists will now face the same pressures that scientists have experienced from ATI.

(WASHINGTON DC E&E Greenwire) - A conservative group that uses public records requests in an attempt to publicize emails written by climate scientists has turned its attention to environmental reporters.

The top target so far is New York Times reporter Justin Gillis

New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water

Duke researchers found that methane gas was far more likely to leak into water supplies in places adjacent to drilling.

(WASHINGTON DC ProPublica) - New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies.

Remnant of War: Vietnam, 37 Years Later

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
US civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

(DA NANG, Viet Nam AOAG) - It’s been 37 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The war was senseless. War is wrong. No question. As a veteran, I can attest to its nonsensical virtues.

One ongoing legacy of that war, Agent Orange, continues to destroy the lives of millions of Vietnamese.

US Project to Clean up Dioxin Contamination in Danang

US project to clean up dioxin contamination in Danang.

(DA NANG, Viet Nam VietNamNet Bridge) - Two US companies have won two contracts as part of the Environmental Remediation of Dioxin Contamination at Danang Airport project.

It is a joint venture between the US and Vietnamese Government.

Chemical Warfare on Indians

The final game is panning out from the gene revolutionaries.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Some decades ago a term ‘democide’ was coined. In Latin, ‘cide’ means killing. The ‘cide’ suffix was added to the prefix ‘demo’ as in democracy. Thus democide came to mean death by the people’s elected government.

Vietnamese Agent Orange Dioxin Victims Today

We're hosting a 'Rebuild The Nation' event at Thong Nhat Park, in Hanoi, to raise $50,000 for a new safe-house in Hue city where suffer most of Dioxin in the war.

(HANOI, Viet Nam) - I am writing you on the behalf of the Agent Orange War’s Victims, a non-profit organization that spreads awareness about the victims of Dioxin in Vietnam war.

At the Agent Orange War’s victims organization, we provide victims of Dioxin and abuse with support groups, counseling and safe-houses/school across the country.