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Arizona Western College Goes Solar

Arizona Western College and Main Street Power Announce Completion of 5-Megawatt Solar Technology Installation to drive sustainability, solar education and workforce training.

(YUMA, Ariz.) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer visited AWC to "Flip the Switch" on a 5-megawatt (MW) solar installation that will provide approximately 100 percent of the college's daytime electricity needs.

"As a college that has worked to develop a strong science program, with facilities and scholarships that are the envy of the state, we are thrilled to integrate solar technology into our curriculum and our sustainability plan," stated AWC president Dr. Glenn Mayle.

Dead Forests, Dying People - Agent Orange & Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

"With the sole exception of nuclear weapons, never has such an inhuman fate ever before been reserved for the survivors..." — Dr. Ton That Tung

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - Making their way through Vietnam’s dense jungles, U.S soldiers heard a cacophony of squawking birds, chattering monkeys, and insects buzzing like high voltage wires.

Gibson Pushes Bill to Help Vietnam Veterans

The bill would move the position of the U.S. government back toward what it was in 1991, when the original Agent Orange legislation was passed.

(DANANG, Vietnam) - Congressman Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, has introduced a bill to extend benefits for ailments associated with Agent Orange exposure suffered by "blue water veterans" who served in Vietnam aboard Navy ships but did not set foot on land.

The bill, H.R. 3612, is a companion to similar legislation introduced in the Senate earlier this year by U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Vietnam Blue Water Navy: One step closer for VA benefits

The American people needs to be aware of how this horrible herbicide has infected thousands of Naval personnel. We served onboard ship in the Vietnam war zone. We too were infected by agent orange dioxin.

(MEDIA, Pa.) - A new step forward is achieved for the Blue Water Navy of the Vietnam War. Vietnam Navy veterans who are infected with presumptive exposure of Agent Orange Dioxin soon may realize benefits from Veterans Affairs (VA) compensation for agent orange disability.

Those Navy veterans, known as Blue Water sailors, who never had boots-on-ground, hopefully will see day light at the end of the tunnel.

House Passes Bill Striking Preemptively at EPA`s Regulation of Farm Dust

The bill was opposed by environmental protection and health policy groups.

(BERKELEY, Calif.) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill (HR 1633) that would establish a temporary prohibition against revising any national ambient air quality standard applicable to coarse particulate matter in order to limit federal regulation of "nuisance dust" in areas in which such dust is regulated under state, tribal, or local law.

Proponents of the bill were concerned about the possibility that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency would regulate so-called "farm dust," particulates kicked up in the air during normal farming practices.

POSCO... a can of rotting bankster-worms [Part 1]

POSCO is a test case in that it is controlled by the same banksters who are grabbing resources worldwide paid for in toilet paper dollars.

(NEW DELHI, India) - The Korean firm known as POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel and the police- are directly overseeing that the company forcibly acquires people’s lands, and water and forest resources in blatant violation of Constitutional safeguards.

POSCO’s Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] expired years ago, yet the Government of India, especially the Home Minister ‘Pope’ Chidambaram, with a history of involvement in India’s biggest financial scams...

Exxon Mobil Involved with Urban Food Gardens

Why is the same company that sells the materials crucial for making agricultural poisons, involved in urban gardens?

(CHICAGO) - A group in San Antonio called the Dinner Garden gets some of its funding from Exxon Mobil. Is this generosity?

If Exxon Mobil is doing this to support urban gardens in San Antonio (and elsewhere) for the sake of people's health, I'll eat my sombrero and cowboy hat. Exxon Mobil is, in fact, involved not only in genetic engineering but in its most extreme form yet - synthetic biology.

Time for a BC Pesticide Ban

BCers want a ban that does not affect public health protection or the forestry and agriculture industries.

(KAMLOOPS, B.C.) - Many today are involved in the effort to see a BC cosmetic pesticide ban on the sale and use of unnecessary toxic products that are used on lawns, playgrounds, sport fields, golf courses and gardens. I am a Kamloops Mom who wants all BCers, our pets and the environment to be protected from harmful pesticide exposure.

The Campbell Government did nothing after last year’s on-line public consultation, even though 88% of respondents wanted a ban!

Agent Orange (Dioxin) Second Generation: Effects on children of Vietnam Veterans

The children of Vietnam Veterans are the innocent victims of Agent Orange Dioxin.

(MEDIA, Pa.) - Some Vietnam veterans who have had or now has diseases brought on by Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange Dioxin are not alone. Many children of Vietnam Veterans conceived during and after the War are also infected by Agent Orange Dioxin. This is the second generation. Will there be a third generation?

Some members of the Armed Forces are recognized by the Veterans Administration (VA).

Tribunal verdict vs. 6 agrochemical TNCs hailed, urgent action on recommendations urged

International organizations and intergovernmental institutions to uphold human rights and the welfare of populations, and protect of biodiversity and ecosystems by subordinating the interests of corporations pursuing patents.

(BANGALORE, India) - Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International hailed the verdict of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) against the world’s six largest agrochemical companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont and BASF after a historic four-day session that culminated in Bangalore, India yesterday.

Victims and survivors of the pesticide industry from all over the world, represented by PAN International, testified before a distinguished international jury to indict the “Big 6” for human rights violations.