After years of ignoring the health hazards to military personnel, the Federal Government is finally helping veterans impacted by Burn Pits; a military “solution” to getting rid of anything by open-air burning, including ordinance, plastics, and chemical waste, with no pollution control, creating health hazards to soldiers on the over 230 military bases with these pits, according to Pat Hynes, recipient of the U.S. EPA Lifetime Achievement Award. Now reduced to nine sites with open air-pits, several bills have been written to include burn pit training, funding for incinerators with proper pollution control, and expand the registry of soldiers with health effects.

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