Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Years of Environmental Lies

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Thousands of pages of documents compiled from lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Air Force are now in the public domain. Through the work of a project called the Poison Papers, under the Center for Media and Democracy, the collection is online and, according to the people who published them, they reveal years of apparent collusion between chemical companies and regulatory agencies.

The documents that the project consists of were largely collected by author and activist Carol Van Strum. Strum moved to Oregon in the 1970s and, in Oregon, her children came into contact with one of the two active ingredients found in Agent Orange during a herbicide spray by the Forest Service.

Jonathan R. Latham, PhD, co-founder and executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project and director of the Poison Papers, joins The Takeaway to discuss some the project's revelations. 

This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.