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, ...

Ignacio, a construction worker who has toiled in the Texas heat for more than 10 years, suffers from chronic kidney disease and must undergo dialysis 12 hours a week. Experts believe CKD is the first ...

Standing before the United Nations last month, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed long-held animosity for the body dating back decades to when his company was apparently rejected for a renovations ...

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 ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, August 7, ...

Maria Alanis hands her mother, Isabel, a flower outside their home in Brownsville, Texas. Maria has been a full-time caregiver since her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. Credit: Miguel ...

Industrial plants and chemical storage tanks as seen from the San Jacinto Monument just north of Deer Park, Texas. The city is surrounded by more than 20 chemical plants subject to the HON rule.

Rosie Brown, executive director at East Carroll Community Action Agency in Lake Providence, La., said people are still struggling to make ends meet in the Delta. “We still have people who are working ...

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