SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will visit a Utah veterans’ medical center on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the signing of legislation providing aid to veterans sickened by gases from military toxic burn pits.
1st Class Heath Robinson, stand by in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, U.S., August 10, 2022.
The U.S. military used burn pits to dispose of waste on foreign bases until the mid-2010s.
Under the law, certain cancers and ailments, including hypertension, are presumed to be connected to the burn pits and the need for veterans to prove they were connected was eliminated.
Biden has said he believes there may have been a connection between the brain cancer that killed his son Beau Biden at age 46 and the burn pits that Beau was exposed to during his military service.
Persons:
Joe Biden, Heath Robinson, Danielle, Brielle Robinson, Kevin Lamarque, Biden, invigorate, George E, Beau Biden, Beau
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Utah, Washington , U.S, American, Salt Lake City, U.S