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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Billionaire William Koch’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, is small compared to the three sprawling oil refineries that surround it – just 112 acres compared with the 10,000 acres occupied by ...

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 ...

Worries mount about chemicals in food, drink, consumer goods … Cancer death rates higher in counties near nuclear plants … ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

This story was updated on April 23, 2025. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into ...