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Ignacio, a construction worker who has toiled in the Texas heat for more than 10 years, suffers from chronic kidney disease and must undergo dialysis 12 hours a week. Experts believe CKD is the first ...

Standing before the United Nations last month, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed long-held animosity for the body dating back decades to when his company was apparently rejected for a renovations ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

The Public Health Watch serial podcast “Fumed,” which profiles two politically conservative residents of a Texas community besieged by pollution, has won a Barlett and Steele award for investigative ...

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, August 7, ...

Last year, the EPA issued a rule aimed at reducing cancer-causing emissions from 218 chemical plants around the U.S. On July 17, however, Donald Trump exempted 49 of those plants—including the biggest ...

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