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 ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution ...

David Butts inspects tainted water collected from taps in his home in Industry, Pennsylvania, when his filter is shut off. Tests have shown his tap water contains manganese. Credit: Natasha Gilbert.

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 ...

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, ...

This project is a collaboration between Public Health Watch and Univision. MCALLEN, Texas — A stretch of South Texas is struggling with a crisis many parts of the nation could someday face: Cases of ...

Juan Gonzalez Morin developed an accelerated form of the deadly lung disease silicosis after cutting and grinding artificial stone countertops in the Los Angeles area. He died in April at age 37.

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 ...

Fred Blackman II, a minister in Austin, has to take dozens of pills every day to deal with the pain and complications of a catastrophic back injury. His experience going uninsured turned him into an ...

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 ...