Burn Pits 360

Toxic-exposure advocacy nonprofit · Founded 2010 by Capt. Le Roy Torres and Rosie Torres

The family-built nonprofit that carried the burn-pit fight for a decade before the PACT Act — and stayed after the law passed. It runs an independent burn-pit exposure registry where family members can record veterans who have already died, publishes clinician and family guides in English and Spanish, and keeps pushing on the diagnosis gap the law left behind.

Why we carry them. When a family’s fight is about toxic exposure, this is the registry, the guides, and the people who proved a family campaign can move Congress.

Start here — their essential work

• CALL TO ACTION: AIR CARE ACT (2026-09-29) — The current campaign: a bipartisan bill for a VA pilot of 4D lung imaging, because a presumptive benefit means little without an accurate diagnosis first.
• Twenty-five years ago, the air changed (2026-09-11) — Le Roy Torres connects Ground Zero dust and Balad’s burn pit: the same pattern of toxic air and a long wait to be believed.
• Burn Pits 360 Announces Full 2026 Gala of Valor Honoree Slate, Launches Hispanic Heritage Tickets (2026-09-11) — The full 2026 Gala of Valor slate, plus a new Congressional Advocacy Award for the AIR CARE Act’s House authors.
• Burn Pits 360 Announces 2026 Gala theme ‘Where Heritage Meets Heroism,’ a Celebration of Service, Latino Heritage (2026-08-21) — Ticket launch for the Oct. 17 Gala of Valor, themed on the organization’s PACT Act artifacts entering the Smithsonian’s Latino museum.
• Julie Tomáška of Burn Pits 360 Named 2026 Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program Scholar (2026-08-16) — Its chief scientific officer joins the Bush Institute’s 2026 Stand-To class, carrying a project to strengthen the registry and exposure research.
• Four Years After the PACT Act, Burn Pits 360 Launches the ‘One Million One Mission’ Campaign (2026-08-10) — On the law’s fourth anniversary: $11 billion delivered and 1.9 million claims approved — and a push to reach one million registry records by 2030.

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