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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...