Emissions spiked after Trump administration rolled back regulations…heat from climate change could worsen US mental health, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents, experts, elected officials and journalists convened in Channelview, Texas, last week to discuss a large and underappreciated source of air pollution.

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 ...

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Over a decade, an average of seven U.S. workers a day suffered workplace accidents that caused or led to amputations. Those ...

Health coverage should be a right, not a privilege, most Americans say … Newer groundwater sources may raise Parkinson’s ...

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 ...

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 ...