A January vote to begin preliminary engineering and design work jump-started the controversial “Ike Dike” project, meant to ...

A January vote to begin preliminary engineering and design work jump-started the controversial “Ike Dike” project, meant to protect against increasingly fierce hurricanes. But not everyone is ...

U.S. corn and soybean farmers are using far more nitrogen fertilizer than their crops need, polluting waterways and damaging the environment, a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists finds.

Public Health Watch executive director and editor-in-chief Jim Morris appeared Thursday on “Hello Houston,” a talk show produced by Houston Public Media, to discuss a recent investigation into a wave ...

More than half of Americans with private health insurance have at least one chronic condition, and their medical costs rise sharply with each additional diagnosis, according to a new analysis of ...

Use Public Health Watch’s interactive map to learn about the 40 refineries that use the potentially lethal chemical, their accident histories and their worst-case accident scenarios.

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 ...

Barges in the Channelview area of Harris County, Texas, on August 23, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix SAN JACINTO RIVER, Texas — Over the past 30 years, federal and state agencies in Texas have allowed ...

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 ...