Jim Morris is founder of Public Health Watch and has been a journalist since 1978, focusing on public health and the environment. He is the author of “The Cancer Factory,” an investigative book on ...

The decision makes court cases more challenging for thousands of plaintiffs suffering from the consequences of pesticide ...

Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s ...

A former DEC engineer who brought to light a Niagara Falls factory’s dangerous bladder carcinogen emissions was recognized as activists push for compliance with a state order.

Gipson is one of thousands of women across Texas living in a maternal healthcare “desert,” with limited access to care during ...

Since Sabine County Hospital closed its labor-and-delivery unit in 2000 and the county lost the last of its physicians who ...

Nearly two decades had passed since the storm. For many, the memory of what had happened on Goat Island had largely vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, what residents remembered that year were ...

LOS ANGELES – California regulators took a first step Thursday toward banning the fabrication of artificial-stone countertops, popular with consumers but implicated in a workplace epidemic of the lung ...

Guilford County Department of Social Services workers Marie Lee, a lead eligibility caseworker (left) and Brittany Scott, eligibility supervisor, help clients at the Tiny House HOPE Center in ...

The 90-year-old Oxbow plant in Port Arthur, Texas, shown here in 2019, is responsible for 80% of the sulfur dioxide in Jefferson County. The company has finally agreed to install pollution controls, ...