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A man pushes a gurney covered with a body bag along a sidewalk

30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem

By Keerti Gopal

As Politicians Quarrel Over Wildfire Smoke, Research on Its Health Impacts Piles Up

By Kiley Price

People travel through dense smog due to air pollution in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 17, 2024. Credit: Salman Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Air Pollution Can Speed Aging, New Study Finds, but Measuring Other Factors Is Challenging

By Chad Small

She is filling an orange bowl with water from her sink, which has a filter attached. Beside the sink is a filtered water pitcher.

Chicago Was Supposed to Warn Residents About Toxic Lead Pipes. It’s Barely Started

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Keerti Gopal

Traci Donatto outside her home in Deer Park, Texas. After 20 years away, she returned to the Houston suburb to care for her father, a former contract welder for the petrochemical industry who is dying of cancer. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions

By Shelby Jouppi

A road worker drinks water at a construction site in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?

By Liza Gross

Strawberry fields stretch for miles in all directions in Monterey County. Legacy pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the berries has made the tap water unfit to drink for local residents. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Violating California Residents’ Right to Water

By Liza Gross

Trent Williams and his grandson, Nathan, look across the Ohio River at the Hugh L. Spurlock Generating Station on June 12 in Maysville, Ky. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers

By Keerti Gopal

StarPet operates a 1.3 million-square-foot factory on 30 acres along Pineview Road in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People

By Lisa Sorg

Trucks with the oil and gas industry drive through the countryside in Springville, Pa. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations

By Kiley Bense

A man cools off in the shade at Daley Plaza as temperatures climbed into the mid-90s on June 23 in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?

By Keerti Gopal

A fracking pad is seen in Westmoreland County, Pa., in October 2022. Credit: Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance

Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say

By Jon Hurdle

A construction crew completes a lead service line replacement at a Chicago home in June 2023. Credit: Vanessa Bly/NRDC

Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights

By Kiley Price

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is seen in the background of a neighborhood in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows

By Kiley Bense

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

A child pours water over himself to cool off during a heat wave at a cattle market in Karachi on May 31. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

Two Suns, One City: Karachi’s Dueling Realities in a Warming World

By Aman Azhar

Smoke from Canadian wildfires covers the Chicago skyline on June 6. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Wildfire Smoke Increases Bad-Air Days, Are Government Agencies Doing Enough?

By Leigh Giangreco

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