According to an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), workers inside the VA mishandled thousands of Camp Lejeune disability claims filed by veterans victimized by the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. Five years ago, the VA began…
Researchers have found a link between thyroid cancer and certain pesticides in a new study highlighting concerns about how exposure affects human health. Study authors from the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed more than 2,000 thyroid cancer cases and found an association between pesticide…
Around one million military personnel, their families, and civilians who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base drank, cooked with, and bathed in severely contaminated water for years. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other harmful chemicals that were discovered have been linked…
Established in 1952 in North Carolina, countless military personnel have lived and worked at Camp Lejeune. When constructed, it was a state-of-the-art training center for U.S. Marines. Camp Lejeune is home to active-duty military, their families, veterans and civilian employees. It is an entire community,…
On August 10, 2022, President Biden signed into law the PACT Act. The legislation serves as the largest health care and benefits expansion in the history of the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA). It includes the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which allows contaminated water victims to…
The Camp Lejeune Justice Act is now law, though political drama briefly made its fate seem murky. The measure was part of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, a bill designed to help veterans injured by…
If the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 passes, President Joe Biden will sign it making it possible for individuals exposed to toxic chemicals through the water supply at Camp Lejeune to file a lawsuit against the United States government. While the Camp Lejeune legislation…
The Supreme Court has rejected two bids from Bayer to stop lawsuits alleging that the company failed to warn the public about the health risks associated with weed killer Roundup. Bayer is facing thousands of Roundup lawsuits that claim the popular herbicide causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma…
For more than 30 years, service members and their families stationed at a military base in North Carolina unknowingly drank and bathed in water contaminated with hazardous chemicals. In the 1980s, Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, NC, tested its water supply for environmental toxins. The base…
Early in May, President Biden and his administration urged the Supreme Court not to hear an appeal regarding Roundup and its manufacturer Bayer. The case in question is Hardeman v. Monsanto Co., originally filed and argued in California. The plaintiff, Edwin Hardeman, believed that Roundup…