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 ...

After he was sent to Iraq in 2008, Beau Biden served at Balad Air Force Base, where as much as 200 tons of waste was burned every day in one of the country's largest burn pits, according to ...

Ernest Barrington was very familiar with the thick smoke and fumes that came off the burn pit at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. The toxic dust that wafted from the huge, open-air ditches where the ...

An Afghan solider walks past debris left in a extinguished burn pit at an outpost in Kandahar Province ... than individuals not exposed to the toxic air, according to a new study based on recently ...

“These people breathed it day and night,” Hass said. Outside the air base today, the burn pit has been planted over with green grass, but the fields around it look dead. They had always been ...

Old uniforms are tossed into a burn pit at Balad Air Base in Iraq in 2008 to keep them from being used by enemy forces. A 2006 memo by an Air Force environmental officer described the Balad pit as ...

By John Ismay On bases established for America’s post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military’s trash was often burned in huge, open-air lots on ... time guarding a burn pit in Kandahar, but later ...

Ruiz had recently met Kepner, who attributed her pancreatic cancer to a single culprit: open-air burn pits used by U.S. forces overseas — including where she was deployed at a base in Iraq ...

An Air Force service member tosses items into a burn pit at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in March 2008. [ SENIOR AIRMAN JULIANNE SHOWALTE | US Air Force ] Although the provision involving burn pits has ...

Le Roy and Rosie Torres founded the Burn Pits 360 group that advocated for ... When Le Roy got home from the Balad Air Base — the second-largest U.S. post in Iraq and where the military ...

I visited Haj Ali, which is a pseudonym for a farmer who lived a mile and a half downwind from the Balad Air Base burn pit, in Yathrib. He had 52 cows that he was taking care of before the ...

On Wednesday, July 13, the House passed the “Honoring our PACT Act,” which would expand access to specialized medical care for military veterans who served around toxic burn pits without ...