Atrazine is detected at harmful levels in more a quarter of rivers and stream miles … Few volunteer firefighters get health ...

Alek Micklethwait stands in front of a portable air conditioning unit on August 10, 2026, at his home in Hutto, Texas. Credit: Brian Diggs for Public Watch HUTTO, Texas — When Alek Micklethwait ...

Atrazine is detected at harmful levels in more a quarter of rivers and stream miles … Few volunteer firefighters get health screenings … and more.

Nearly 600 households in Galveston lack any air conditioning, and many others struggle to afford to use it. Local aid groups are grappling with growing calls for help. This is the third installment in ...

Nearly 600 households in Galveston lack any air conditioning, and many others struggle to afford to use it. Local aid groups are grappling with growing calls for help. This is the third installment in ...

Radiologist Brandon Crum scrutinizes images of coal miners’ lungs in his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky. All the lungs shown here are riddled with fibrotic tissue, the breath-stealing signature ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – California regulators took a first step Thursday toward banning the fabrication of artificial-stone countertops, popular with consumers but implicated in a workplace epidemic of the lung ...

For years, the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been releasing large quantities of a carcinogen with the state's knowledge. Regulators say they're working on a solution, but ...

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a ...

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 ...