A state board is considering the drastic move, which could come as soon as May, after an outbreak of the lung disease ...

Climate change makes housing more costly, less stable…exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ can weaken immune response…pregnant ...

Asthma, childhood cancer, birth defects linked to well proximity …Most U.S. pesticides lack cancer warnings on labels … and ...

Most Americans believe eliminating health inequities should be a priority for U.S. leaders and that everyone should be able to access health care, regardless of their ability to pay. The findings came ...

Gus Rodriguez sits on his porch on Nov. 24, 2025, at his home in Elizabeth, Colorado, near Denver. Rodriguez’s leg was amputated below the knee after a workplace accident in a San Antonio asphalt ...

Eighty-four percent of Americans are worried about being exposed to potentially harmful chemicals in their food, water and consumer products and want the government to help protect them, a new poll ...

Residents speak with nonprofit organizations with tables at a Public Health Watch town-hall event on February 19 in Highlands, Texas. Credit: Antranik Tavitian for Public Health Watch About 60 people ...

“Howard is a remarkable journalist I’ve known for 15 years,” said PHW executive director and founder Jim Morris. “He helped get this organization started when it was little more than an intriguing ...

Being exposed to environmental poisons such as air pollution and lead can harm cognitive health. New research finds people exposed to the contaminants may have higher risks for dementia and problems ...

Despite a downpour, nearly every seat in the board room of an office building in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake was occupied on the morning of January 21. Seated at a conference table littered with ...

A January vote to begin preliminary engineering and design work jump-started the controversial “Ike Dike” project, meant to protect against increasingly fierce hurricanes. But not everyone is ...

U.S. corn and soybean farmers are using far more nitrogen fertilizer than their crops need, polluting waterways and damaging the environment, a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds.