To do that, they are following the playbook of veteran activists, launching a burn pit registry to collect data on contractors’ exposure and medical conditions. Fluor materials yard on Bagram ...

Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in the stopgap federal spending bill passed by lawmakers this week. The provision would cut a Department of Veteran Affairs ...

They've been referred to as the Agent Orange of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Burn pits were used by the United States military to dispose of rubbish including chemicals, plastics, rubber ...

A 58-year-old Warren County woman is dead after being “consumed by fire” in an incident at her backyard burn pit, according to a sheriff’s report and the Deerfield Township Fire Department.

The controversial fund was meant to allot $22.8 billion to cover expanded benefits for former service members sickened by military toxic exposures — including burn pit smoke and Agent Orange ...

Photo provided by Columbus Fire Department. Columbus firefighters work at the scene of a backyard burn pit fire Friday morning. COLUMBUS, Ind. — Columbus firefighters said dry vegetation and ...

Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.), himself a veteran, said he couldn’t support a bill “that would cut $23 billion from care for veterans exposed to Agent Orange, burn pits, and toxic substances ...