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March 17, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Gutting USAID Leads to Catastrophe for Agent Orange Cleanup
The United States is abandoning its work to clean up postwar pesticides it left in Vietnam.
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House GOP Assails Clean Water Act as West Virginians Go Without Clean Water
January 14, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Did John Boehner Take Money from the Company Behind the West Virginia Spill?
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Why So Many West Virginians Relied on Water from the Elk River: Industry Already Polluted the Others

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