Dr. Sacoby Wilson is an environmental health scientist and a leader in environmental justice. The Heinz Awards recognize extraordinary contributions in the arts, the environment, and the economy.

“Nobody will be holding polluters accountable for what they dump into the air we breathe, in the water we drink while EPA is shut down,” said Symons, now a senior adviser to the Environmental ...

Repealing key protections could erase $254 billion in annual benefits for public health and the environment, compared with $39 billion in savings for regulated industries Looser rules around air and ...

Larimer County announced that Bob McDonald, former Executive Director of the Denver Department of Public Health and ...

Amid funding cuts for environmental initiatives on a federal level and attacks on abortion access at the state level, experts are seeing the effects of a correlation between reproductive care and ...

A new data tool from researchers at UCLA highlights significant environmental health disparities between Latino and white neighborhoods in L.A., providing critical insights amid escalating public ...

Robert Taylor built his two-story brick house in St. John the Baptist Parish, La., in 1969. He and his neighbors turned pastures for dairy cows into what's now Reserve, an unincorporated area in ...

The Trump administration has been canceling research programs at federal agencies needed to monitor the nation’s ...

To protect pets from lead poisoning, keep them away from peeling or chipping paint and at a safe distance from active renovations, especially in homes built before 1978, the year the use of lead-based ...