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This story, part of an ongoing Public Health Watch project, “Uninsured in America,” was co-reported and co-published with KUNM public radio station in Albuquerque. ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Sarah ...

This story, part of Public Health Watch’s “Uninsured in America” project, was reported and co-published by public radio station KJZZ Phoenix. Amy Silverman is executive producer and Athena Ankrah a ...

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Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a ...

State Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Democrat from Dallas, has made Medicaid expansion in Texas a priority during his first term. None of his bills has succeeded, but he's determined to break through ...

LOS ANGELES – California regulators took a first step Thursday toward banning the fabrication of artificial-stone countertops, popular with consumers but implicated in a workplace epidemic of the lung ...

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 ...

Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez has a severe case of silicosis from cutting countertops. He says he used water to suppress the dust and wore high-quality masks, but the fine silica powder still entered his ...

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 ...