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 ...

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 ...

Barges in the Channelview area of Harris County, Texas, on August 23, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix SAN JACINTO RIVER, Texas — Over the past 30 years, federal and state agencies in Texas have allowed ...

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 ...

Houston pediatrician D. Maneesh Kumar talks with his young patient, Maya, who was born with a rare genetic disorder. Maya’s family relies on Medicaid to cover the expensive treatment and care she ...

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 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, ...