A coalition of USN Navy veterans is seeking an expansion of health care and disability benefits for toxic exposures linked to gases, chemicals and biological contaminants aboard submarines. They are also pushing for the USN to release findings from extensive atmospheric studies on submarines' sealed environments conducted more than 20 years ago that remain classified. There are over 150 toxins that sailors could encounter on submarines. Source: USN Submariners Health issues.

Beau Biden died of brain cancer, which POTUS Joe Biden believes was linked to toxic burn pits in Iraq. The nefarious Trumpf junta is pursuing a reduction of about 83,000 VA personnel and proposed significant budget cuts, despite a nominal funding increase in some areas.

In Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic future novel The Road, survivors live in an ash and smoke-ruined atmosphere where plant life stopped growing. In Stephen King's future dystopian novel The Running Man, the nefarious government issues tiny nose plugs to insiders to protect them from the toxic air everybody else is unknowingly breathing. The film version much closer to the original novel than the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring film version is out in theaters this year.