Author: Brett Murphy

Brett Murphy is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on ProPublica’s national desk, where he writes about the government, companies and power.

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Trump’s Cuts To USAID Halt Agent Orange Cleanup In Vietnam — Lives Are Now At Risk

​Vietnamese construction workers apply plastic sheeting during cleanup work of contaminated land
Vietnamese construction workers apply plastic sheeting during cleanup work of contaminated land around the airport of Da Nang City, Vietnam. Richard Nyberg/Planet Pix/ZUMA

Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic partner in Asia.

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