Health
More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds
By Victoria St. Martin
Low Wages and Health Risks Are Crippling the U.S. Wildland Firefighting Forces
By Kiley Price
A Group of Women Took Switzerland to Court Over Climate Inaction—and Won
By Kiley Price
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire
By Lee Hedgepeth
California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer
By Liza Gross
Flaring and Venting at Industrial Plants Causes Roughly Two Premature Deaths Each Day, a New Study Finds
By Victoria St. Martin
Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine
By Liza Gross
In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy
By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin
A Gas Tanker Crashed in Birmingham and Spilled 2,100 Gallons Into Nearby Village Creek. Who Is Responsible?
By Lee Hedgepeth
Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births
Jessica Kutz, The 19th
Q&A: California Nurse and Environmental Health Pioneer Barbara Sattler on Climate Change as a Medical Emergency
By Liza Gross
Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose
By Noel Lyn Smith
To Live and Die in Philadelphia: Sonya Sanders Grew Up Next Door to a Giant Refinery. She’s Still Suffering From Environmental Trauma
By Victoria St. Martin
Q&A: Everyday Plastics Are Making Us Sick—and Costing Us $250 Billion a Year in Healthcare
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
After Another Year of Record-Breaking Heat, a Heightened Focus on Public Health
By Victoria St. Martin