Women who live in hot urban ‘islands’ face pregnancy risks…silicosis deaths keep rising for countertop stone workers…Black ...

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World food production becoming more unstable…US clean water crisis worsens… patients without commercial insurance are less ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...

In the spring of 1977, federal workplace-safety regulators were confronted with a grim government study. Current and former employees of two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Ohio had been using ...

Built on a former caliche mine, the Blackhorn Environmental Services oil and gas waste disposal facility includes pits to separate solid and liquid material and other pits where waste is dried before ...

This story was co-published by Grist. Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the country — regional nerve centers for a potentially clean fuel that ...

Industrial plants and chemical storage tanks as seen from the San Jacinto Monument just north of Deer Park. The city is surrounded by more than 20 chemical plants subject to the HON rule. Credit: Mark ...

Today “The Cancer Factory,” an investigative book by Public Health Watch founder Jim Morris, goes on sale. Published by Beacon Press, it covers territory familiar to PHW readers. It shows how ...

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on August 6 ...

Downtown Houston on a smoggy day. Particulate matter, an ingredient in smog, has been linked to a long list of health effects, including premature death, stroke and breast cancer. Credit: Dave Fehling ...