Health care marketplaces could boost premiums next year…exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ may raise diabetes risk…more primary ...

The White House exempted 49 chemical plants from the HON rule that required them to monitor and control air emissions to ...

Last year, the EPA issued a rule aimed at reducing cancer-causing emissions from 218 chemical plants around the U.S. On July ...

Some states lack obstetric care at most facilities…poll finds Americans believe insurers have too much power over health ...

High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a fight against tighter controls ...

The federal government has struggled to control the carcinogen, which threatens workers and residents who are exposed to it. Users and manufacturers have gone to extremes to argue that it’s dangerous ...

Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that frequently violate their permits.

How they did it: To estimate deaths and health conditions attributable to fine-particle pollution in Texas, researchers Luke Bryan and Dr. Philip Landrigan plugged demographic and air-pollution data ...

Channelview’s Benzene Crisis at a Glance New data show that residents of Channelview, Texas, were exposed to higher levels of cancer-causing benzene in 2021 than ever recorded in the community’s ...

A stretch of South Texas is struggling with a crisis many parts of the nation could someday face: the increase in cases of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The state’s response has been uneven ...

While death rates for childhood cancer victims are going down, incidence rates are going up. Are environmental exposures at fault?