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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The West Stanley Pit disasters refers to two explosions at the West Stanley colliery (variously known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit). West Stanley colliery...
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Balad Air Base (section Burn Pit)
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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Bronchiolitis obliterans (section Burn pits)
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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KBR, Inc. (section "Burn pits" lawsuits)
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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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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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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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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A 1,500-square-foot (140 m2) burn pit on the airport property was named a Superfund site on March 31, 1989. The burn pit was built in 1968 and was used...
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