People who live on the San Jacinto fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. It’s unclear who’s policing the ...

People who live on the San Jacinto fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. It’s unclear who’s policing the ...

Study finds broad support for government role in health care … Firefighter protective gear may endanger health … Dirty rain ...

Study finds broad support for government role in health care … Firefighter protective gear may endanger health … Dirty rain and food … and more.

This story was updated on April 23, 2025. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into ...

Downtown Houston on a smoggy day. Particulate matter, an ingredient in smog, has been linked to a long list of health effects, including premature death, stroke and breast cancer. Credit: Dave Fehling ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...

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Billionaire industrialist William Koch had a problem in 2010. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was tightening regulations for sulfur dioxide, or SO 2, a noxious gas that damages the lungs and ...

In the spring of 1977, federal workplace-safety regulators were confronted with a grim government study. Current and former employees of two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Ohio had been using ...

For years, the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been releasing large quantities of a carcinogen with the state's knowledge. Regulators say they're working on a solution, but ...