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

Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...

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 ...

A North Texas woman, shown here gazing out at a small pond near her home in early February 2025, is afraid to discuss her abortion with her mental health therapist for fear she’ll be reported to ...

Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez has a severe case of silicosis from cutting countertops. He says he used water to suppress the dust and wore high-quality masks, but the fine silica powder still entered his ...