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Audience members at a town hall meeting sponsored by Public Health Watch in Channelview, Texas, on March 5 questioned a panel of journalists and experts who discussed the health risks of chemical ...

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 ...

Health coverage should be a right, not a privilege, most Americans say … Newer groundwater sources may raise Parkinson’s disease risks … and more.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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