A shortage of mental-health providers and other barriers to proving a disabling condition can make qualifying for benefits ...
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Women who experience high temperatures during their pregnancies are at greater risk for health harms — and where they live can worsen their risks, a recent study says. Published in the Journal of ...
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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 ...
This story was co-published by Grist. Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the country — regional nerve centers for a potentially clean fuel that ...
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 ...
Built on a former caliche mine, the Blackhorn Environmental Services oil and gas waste disposal facility includes pits to separate solid and liquid material and other pits where waste is dried before ...
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 ...