Four years ago Public Health Watch went live with its first investigations focused on the prevention of illness, injury and ...

Officials in one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. don’t track heat-related illnesses and count on an unfunded task ...

Officials in one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. don’t track heat-related illnesses and count on an unfunded task ...

More than a million uninsured people live near feedlots…women in states with strict abortion laws turn to ...

The federal government has struggled to control the carcinogen, which threatens workers and residents who are exposed to it. Users and manufacturers have gone to extremes to argue that it’s dangerous ...

Channelview’s Benzene Crisis at a Glance New data show that residents of Channelview, Texas, were exposed to higher levels of cancer-causing benzene in 2021 than ever recorded in the community’s ...

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on August 6 ...

The evidence continues to mount that a widely used firefighting foam may be linked to high rates of cancer among U.S. firefighters. Why is the foam still in firehouses?

High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a fight against tighter controls ...

Today "The Cancer Factory," an investigative book by Public Health Watch founder Jim Morris, goes on sale. It shows how blue-collar workers can be exposed to deadly substances without their knowledge, ...

A stretch of South Texas is struggling with a crisis many parts of the nation could someday face: the increase in cases of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The state’s response has been uneven ...