This excerpt comes from the forthcoming book “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America,” which details how a set of toxic compounds have devastated entire ...

But that trust was abused, Waghiyi said. The U.S. military eventually abandoned its Air Force and Army bases, leaving the land polluted with toxic chemicals such as fuel, mercury, and ...

While the PACT Act addressed some toxic ... ignored by military and Department of Veterans Affairs officials. "There's not been a lot of lessons learned," said Mandy Feindt, an Army major who ...

Similar certificates are likely sitting in houses all over Colorado Springs, documenting not only years of service but years of exposure to toxic chemicals ... at least at select military ...

Similar certificates are likely sitting in houses all over Colorado Springs, documenting not only years of service but years of exposure to toxic ... military installations. The Colorado Army ...

Rana was interrogated inside a CCTV-equipped chamber on the ground floor of the NIA building. In a high-security chamber deep inside the fortified headquarters of the National Investigation Agency ...

Regarding uranium exposure, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ... that those returning to a former war zone don masks or scarves to avoid inhaling fine particles; bury trash ...

alleging toxic living conditions and accusing the company of “shoddy maintenance practices and corporate indifference or ineptitude” at its privatized military housing community at Naval Air ...

Paul Lawrence testifies during his confirmation hearing to be deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee on Feb. 19. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

The owners of 84 plots in the community garden got a chance to retrieve whatever they can from their green spaces. Volunteers ...