Attendees gathered February 19 in the Houston-area Highlands community, home to a notorious toxic waste site. They wanted to ...

Retired NPR correspondent Howard Berkes and political strategist Cliff Walker become board chair and vice chair, respectively.

A January vote to begin preliminary engineering and design work jump-started the controversial “Ike Dike” project, meant to ...

Lead exposure is linked to almost three times the risk of Alzheimer’s …. Millions on Medicare Advantage plans may lose coverage … ’Forever chemicals’ in umbilical cord blood … and more.

A January vote to begin preliminary engineering and design work jump-started the controversial “Ike Dike” project, meant to protect against increasingly fierce hurricanes. But not everyone is ...

More than half of Americans with private health insurance have at least one chronic condition, and their medical costs rise sharply with each additional diagnosis, according to a new analysis of ...

Use Public Health Watch’s interactive map to learn about the 40 refineries that use the potentially lethal chemical, their accident histories and their worst-case accident scenarios.

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 ...

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 ...

Up to half the nitrogen applied to boost crop yields is not used by plants … Nurse-led hospital care on par with doctors … ...