US to fund Agent Orange clean-up
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The US agrees for the first time to pay to clean up a site where Agent Orange was kept during the Vietnam war.
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Former US president Bill Clinton and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced the creation of a special fund to provide uncontaminated water to victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.
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The Bush administration is set to approve requests from two refineries to borrow oil from the government&#39;s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to make up for supplies
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SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced the $1.5-billion Canada Eco-Trust and Clean Air Fund.  The fund will distribute money to the provinces and territories, which will decide on their major projects to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases.
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The nation's biggest oil refiner agreed yesterday to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine plants scattered across the country, effectively removing 47,000 tons of harmful pollution from the air each year.
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Albania will destroy a decades-old stockpile of chemical weapons within two years, using $18.3 million ($26.5 million) of funding pledged by the United States, Defence Minister Pandeli Majko said on Tuesday.
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Oct. 22 -- The US Department of Energy has awarded a $235 million grant to help fund the development of a clean, advanced technology coal-fired power plant near Orlando, Fla.
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WASHINGTON -- Nearly 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States is increasing aid to help remove unexploded ordnance that continues to kill people in the former war zone, especially in Laos, where 2 million tons of bombs were dropped.
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By BEN STOCKING  DANANG, Vietnam - More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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The US administration is expected to request $80bn extra for military  operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Bush administration, faced with  a growing insurgency and record fuel costs, plans early next  year to seek $60 billion to $75 billion in emergency funding  for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration  and congressional officials said on Tuesday.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 7--If Congress provides the funding requested in the president's budget for fiscal 2008, there should be sufficient money to move forward with chemical demilitarization at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
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By David Whitney, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 24--WASHINGTON -- Congress will soon send President Bush a funding bill for the Iraq war that also will deliver $60.4 million in disaster assistance that desperate West Coast salmon fishermen have been seeking for nearly a year.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he expects international contributions to countries hit by the earthquake and tsunami disaster to be in the billions of dollars.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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The United States and China are preparing to provide tens of millions of dollars in fuel aid to North Korea as it moves to declare and disable its nuclear weapons program, US officials said Thursday.
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Seven prominent Vietnamese and Americans will work together to support humanitarian efforts in cleaning up wartime dioxin, or "agent orange" in Vietnam, the U.S.-based Ford Foundation said on Wednesday.