Environment & Health

A federal judge has denied a request from the former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C.

We have to face some inconvenient facts about our health care system, six years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act.

Legislative hearings have begun about the water crisis in Hoosick Falls, New York, and many people have been dropping the F word: Flint.

For years, local Ohioans have been told by courts and elected officials that they have no control over fracking.

It's too early to hail Sikkim's transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers.

Unlike most water contaminants, lead gets into water after it leaves a water treatment plant.

A healthy climate is achievable in our lifetimes with atmospheric carbon removal, and we have the technology to do it.

Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered.

Last week, NASA released a follow-up study on its 2014 report that exposed a huge methane hotspot looming over the Four Corners.

Activists delivered a petition protesting the leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling.