Two Massachusetts veterans are suing KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., claiming the companies “poisoned” them and at least 100,000 other soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan by exposing them to toxic smoke and fumes.
The Texas companies, hired by the U.S. government to dispose of waste on bases and camps, have ignored their contractual obligations by burning vast quantities of unsorted waste in open-air “burn pits” with no safety controls since 2003, according to a lawsuit filed by soldiers Jeffrey Cox and James Garland in federal court in Boston.
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