It took a concerted years-long advocacy effort by affected veterans and advocates, culminating in a 24/7 “firewatch” of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care for retired military members, sent out a memo instructing top-level staff to prepare for reorganization in August to “resize and ...

As Washington refocuses on the issue of burn pits—waste fires used extensively in Afghanistan and Iraq which emitted toxic smoke that later sickened troops—Military Times is republishing our ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization to cut staff across the sprawling agency that ...

The thousands of U.S. military personnel and private contractors whose health was compromised by the dense black smoke of burn pits — and who have been denied proper treatment — may finally be ...

Exposure to airborne hazards can occur in the home (indoor air exposures), in the workplace (occupational exposures), or ...

Known in military jargon as a ‘burn pit’, it was where jet fuel was used, day and night, to set fire to all manner of hazardous waste material – from used tired, vehicle parts, ammunition ...

Burn pits were commonly used at military sites to get rid of waste during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The chemicals that veterans were exposed to from those pits have since been linked to ...

But that exposure could also pose a long-term hazard comparable to--though on a far wider scale--that faced military units exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. The massive number of ...

Burn Pits 360 cofounder Rosie Torres, right, and husband Le Roy attend the signing of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promises to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act at the ...

Timothy James Smith, 46, of Creve Coeur died Feb. 5 of cancer linked to his military service in Iraq, where he was posted near burn pits that emitted toxic fumes. An author and entrepreneur ...