Public Health Watch produced cutting-edge journalism on a wide range of topics in 2024. Here are nine stories and one column ...

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Advocates canvassed Niagara Falls’ LaSalle neighborhood last week with a map showing potential neighborhood exposure to a ...

Fred Blackman II, a minister in Austin, has to take dozens of pills every day to deal with the pain and complications of a catastrophic back injury. His experience going uninsured turned him into an ...

Jim Morris is the founder of Public Health Watch and has been a journalist since 1978, focusing on public health and the environment. He is the author of “The Cancer Factory,” an investigative book on ...

The cancer risk from benzene emissions could be up to 2,000 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s current estimate.

The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than ...

The Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been using a chemical called ortho-toluidine, linked to bladder cancer, since 1957. The plant has had an outbreak of the disease among workers; there ...

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This is part 1 of a 2-part series, originally published by E nvironmental Health News. Read part 2: What’s hampering federal environmental justice efforts in the hydrogen hub build-out? On a rainy day ...

The modeling, by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, shows that levels of ortho-toluidine in some areas are seven times the state’s safety guideline.