Insurance premiums surging as hospital costs soar…study links ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water to pregnancy ...

the high volume is contributing to mounting waste, including microplastics that increasingly escape into air, land and water, according to the report.

Hundreds of thousands of more children in the United States are going without health insurance, and experts warn that actions by the Trump administration and Congress will likely make the problem ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houston pediatrician D. Maneesh Kumar talks with his young patient, Maya, who was born with a rare genetic disorder. Maya’s family relies on Medicaid to cover the expensive treatment and care she ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

The Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, eliminated or significantly reduced exposures to six major classes of chemicals when its new campus opened in 2019. (Sadie ...

This article was originally published by Deceleration, a nonprofit news organization based in San Antonio. ARLINGTON, Texas—The 10-mile stretch of drill sites and compressor stations between the far ...

Martin Garduño, of Stripe It Up, works on striping the intersection of West 29th and San Gabriel streets on a hot afternoon in Austin, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin ...