public health
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Want to toss out pollution-fighting rules? You’ll have to face California first.
The sunshine state is ready to fight for its auto emissions standards.
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Nearly 8,000 U.S. public schools are plagued by toxic air
Across the country, kids attend schools so close to busy roads that traffic exhaust poses a health risk.
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6 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, thousands of people are still sick
The disaster took a heavy toll on public health in the Gulf.
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Brilliant photographer captures daily life during the Flint water crisis
A short film by Latoya Ruby Frazier shows that surviving is harder when your water is poisoned.
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Olympians prepare for a “petri dish of pathogens”
If Rio's waters weren't cleaned up for Olympic athletes, how can we expect they'll be cleaned up for the city's actual residents?
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Obama reminds us things are getting better all the time
In a speech on Wednesday, Obama pointed out that we are living in the "most prosperous, most progressive era in human history."
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Don’t believe the slander: Americans are eating less crap.
But the rich still eat better than the rest.