On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a ...

Unsafe drinking water linked to disinfectants…arsenic in rice could rise with climate change…mattresses may expose kids to ...

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Low payments, high demand put hospital EDs at risk … patients fare worse at hospitals serving Black communities ...

The NIOSH mobile unit is part of a program designed to protect miners from black lung disease that may not survive recent cuts. Credit: Justin Hicks / KPR Scott Laney worked at the National Institute ...

The rule, from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, was imposed last year in response to an epidemic of severe black ...

The rule, from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, was imposed last year in response to an epidemic of severe black lung disease among coal miners.

Hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were laid off this week, including researchers who monitor the health of coal miners.

More than a third of Americans can’t afford to pay for quality health care, a new national poll finds. The affordability gap also widened for people with low incomes and people of color. About 91 ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have called it the “Great American Comeback.” But environmental advocates say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s reversing course on enforcing air ...