In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the link between pesticide exposure and Parkinson’s disease looms large — for farmworkers and ...
Workers who cut, grind and polish artificial-stone slabs are at extreme risk of developing the deadly lung disease silicosis.
Driving the decline, experts say, are several state and federal policy changes that block or discourage immigrants from ...
Recent bans on immigration from the Trump administration could worsen healthcare worker shortages in the U.S., especially in underserved communities, a new study in JAMA Network Open warns. On Dec. 2, ...
Juliana Salazar, 4, stands behind a plexiglass barrier inside her family’s home in Pearland, Texas. Her father built the wall to protect her from disease exposures that her severely compromised immune ...
As data centers rapidly expand across the U.S., new research warns Americans could face higher electric bills, greater pollution and even hotter neighborhoods. Published May 12 in Environmental ...
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 ...
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 ...