Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Fund for veterans exposed to toxics faces chopping block Democratic ...

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 ...