Plastic waste risks include heart disease, cancer and asthma ... Physician practices are paid less to treat Black, Hispanic ...

Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution ...

Update, July 21, 2025: Last week, President Trump exempted 49 chemical plants from complying with the HON Rule. The largest emitters of ethylene oxide and chloroprene received exemptions including the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Juan Gonzalez Morin developed an accelerated form of the deadly lung disease silicosis after cutting and grinding artificial stone countertops in the Los Angeles area. He died in April at age 37.

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Fred Blackman II, a minister in Austin, has to take dozens of pills every day to deal with the pain and complications of a catastrophic back injury. His experience going uninsured turned him into an ...

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 ...

Ignacio, a construction worker who has toiled in the Texas heat for more than 10 years, suffers from chronic kidney disease and must undergo dialysis 12 hours a week. Experts believe CKD is the first ...