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    A burn pit is an area of a United States military base in which waste is disposed of by burning. According to the United States Army field manual, there...
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    those symptoms to burn pits. Despite this, the VA allows service members to file claims for symptoms they believe to be related to burn pit exposure. A black...
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    the open-air burn pits of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the degradation of traditional irrigation systems. The burn pits produced hazardous...
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    claiming the provision would increase spending authority unrelated to burn pits. The failed cloture vote occurred immediately after the bipartisan CHIPS...
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  • responding to the allegations said that "at the sites where KBR provides burn pit services, the company does so ... in accordance with the relevant provisions"...
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    there is any correlation between burn pits and health problems, but has started an "Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry" to begin tracking the...
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    to veterans exposed to toxic substances during their service including burn pits. Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at Doctors Hospital in the...
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  • Stanley Pit disasters refers to two explosions in 1882 and 1909 at the West Stanley colliery (variously known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit), a coal...
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    coolant (NaK) contaminated with mixed fission products. The sodium burn pit, an open-air pit for cleaning sodium-contaminated components, was also contaminated[when...
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    fixed grate, rotary-kiln, and fluidised bed.[citation needed] The burn pile or the burn pit is one of the simplest and earliest forms of waste disposal, essentially...
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