The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday that enhances benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, expanding their opportunities to obtain free medical care and presuming that certain illnesses and cancers were linked to their exposure during their military service. T...
Toxic Burn Pits at U.S. Marine Base in Afghanistan Threaten HealthDina Fine Maron
President Joe Biden has voiced suspicion that his son's death from brain cancer was linked to burn pits that were in use while Maj. Beau Biden served in Iraq. "And they come home, many of the world’s fittest and best-trained warriors, never the same — headaches, numbness,...
Biden has said he suspects his late son Beau's exposure to "burn pits" in Iraq contributed to his death. "Because of his exposure to burn pits, in my view -- I can't prove it yet -- he came back with stage four glioblastoma," Biden said in 2019. "Eighteen months he lived, know...
After 9/11, open-air burn pits were the predominant method of waste disposal on Iraq and Afghanistan military bases. A wide range of items, including paint, petroleum, rubber and food waste, were burned. In 2010, Congress banned the pits except where there aren’t ...
Hundreds of tons of waste produced on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan were doused with jet and diesel fuels and burned in massive burn pits—as American soldiers lived, worked, and slept next to the toxic fumes. Now that they are home, hundreds of thousands veteran...
Ruiz said while this is an important step, he is still working to get a comprehensive burn pit bill brought to the House floor. Ruiz said that bill would stop requiring veterans to prove their condition is a direct result of burn pits. ...
It’s estimated that about 3.5 million U.S. service members have been exposed to burn pits, according to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonprofit veterans organization. The burn pits were used in Afghanistan and Iraq to deal with medical waste, human waste and other waste ne...
Many of the toxic exposures impacting soldiers who returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are related to burn pits — large heaps of trash that are set on fire to dispose of the military’s waste. Exposure to these pits has been linked to asthma, sinusitis, and rare ...
PROVIDED AHBP VA-TOX EXP SCRN VETERAN CONCERN AIRBORNE HAZARD BURN PIT VA-TOX EXP SCRN VETERAN CONCERN EDUCATION PROVIDED AO VA-TOX EXP SCRN VETERAN CONCERN AGENT ORANGE VA-TOX EXP SCRN VETERAN CONCERN NONE VA-TOX EXP SCRN VETERAN CONCERN TOXIC EXP PRESUMP COND QUESTIONS IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN [C]...