Toxic Burn Pits are Poisoning Central Louisiana

Toxic Burn Pits are Poisoning Central Louisiana

Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean & Healthy Environment: Fighting for ZERO Open Burning/Open Detonation in New RCRA Permit   September 22, 2022 — Clean Harbors Colfax is the only commercial open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) facility in the...
Lawsuit Challenges Cause of Holston Army Explosion

Lawsuit Challenges Cause of Holston Army Explosion

  By TESSA WORLEY tworley@timesnews.net, Kingsport Times-News TENNESSEE — BAE Systems employees might not have followed safety protocols, which led to the Jan. 3, 2019, explosion at Holston Army Ammunition Plant, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court....
PFAS Renewed Concern at Badger Ammo

PFAS Renewed Concern at Badger Ammo

Earlier this month, at a public meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board for the former 7,400-acre Badger Army Ammunition Plant, the Army reported that of the eight PFAS chemicals detected in groundwater at the southern plant boundary in 2018, concentrations of one...
Final Signing of PACT Act to Care for Burn Pit Victims!

Final Signing of PACT Act to Care for Burn Pit Victims!

Bipartisan legislation supported by CSWAB and other members of the national Cease Fire Campaign to give all generations of toxic-exposed veterans their earned health care and benefits under the Veterans Affairs (VA), was signed into law today by U.S. President Joe...
Viequenses Call for Ban on Toxic Burning by Military

Viequenses Call for Ban on Toxic Burning by Military

Testimony before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Michael Urayoan Connelly Reyes Representing Vidas Viequenses Valen, Vieques, Puerto Rico 20 June 2022 We’re an island population with a backstory of more than six decades residing downwind of...