burn pits

The Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, which passed in 2022, grew out of a need to provide care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their service overseas.

A congressional committee will hear testimony next week on the need to speed up health care benefits for service members exposed to toxic burn pits…

Especially in the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, soldiers burned their waste in big, open-air pits. They burned everything from tires,…

In Afghanistan and Iraq, especially in the early years, soldiers burned their waste in big, open-air pits. “A burn pit’s just a big hole in the ground.…