{"id":323774,"date":"2010-02-13T23:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2010-02-13T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:57:20","slug":"kbr-tells-court-it-was-following-military-orders-when-employees-burned-toxic-waste-in-open-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323774","title":{"rendered":"KBR Tells Court It Was Following Military Orders When Employees Burned Toxic Waste in Open Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/145654\/kbr_tells_court_it_was_following_military_orders_when_employees_burned_toxic_waste_in_open_pits\">Alternet<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/images\/managed\/storyimages_picture39_1266007787.jpg_310x221\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"247\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The military&#8217;s largest contractor is trying to avoid liability for  health risks associated with burn pits to soldiers in Iraq and  Afghanistan, but the truth is emerging.<\/p>\n<p>In October a class action suit combining 22 lawsuits  from 43 states was filed in US District Court in Maryland against KBR,  Halliburton, and other military contractors for damages to health from  open air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 According to plaintiffs&#8217;  lawyers the military contracting giant had been paid millions of dollars  to safely dispose of waste on bases but negligently burned refuse in  open pits, spewing toxins, including known carcinogens, into the air.  Last week, KBR sought to dismiss the charges. Their tack was not to deny  that they burned lithium batteries, petroleum, asbestos, trucks, cars,  paint, plastic, Styrofoam, medical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alternet: The military&#8217;s largest contractor is trying to avoid liability for health risks associated with burn pits to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the truth is emerging. In October a class action suit combining 22 lawsuits from 43 states was filed in US District Court in Maryland against KBR, Halliburton, and other military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}