including siting legislation developed by the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation (CEUR) and carried by Del. Rip Sullivan, D-Fairfax, and Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville. The legislation sought to tackle the biggest obstacle to unleashing gigawatts of clean, low-cost energy ...
Marines dispose of trash in a burn pit in the Khan Neshin District of Afghanistan on March 4, 2012. (Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez/Marine Corps) Veterans Affairs officialsare now accepting claims for all presumptive illnesses included in themassive toxic exposure legislationsigned in...
Whether the cancer was a product of the open-air burn pit in Iraq that burned nearby day and night or the 10-plus IED strikes his armored vehicle endured, each stirring up particulate matter, remains unknown. But Coleen is sure that knowing what he was exposed to would...
President Joe Biden on March 1 invoked his status as the father of a fallen soldier in aState of the Unionpromise to improve veterans health care and benefits, specifically focused on individuals suffering from theeffects of toxic burn pit smokefrom their time deployed overseas. “I’...