In the wake of the East Palestine train derailment, Jess Conard has developed a program to assist local leaders in ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent study indicates that traditional methods for assessing worker exposure to hazards, which often rely on professional opinion and experience, may ...

Jessica Conard, now a nationally recognized rail safety and environmental health advocate who emerged from the aftermath of the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, recently launched a new program to ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Editor’s Note (5/3/23): New York State has become the first state to pass a law banning gas stoves and other gas-powered appliances in new buildings, including houses and apartment buildings. The move ...

Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) focus on protecting human health from environmental and occupational pollutants and exposures, such as those that arise from poor outdoor and indoor air quality, ...

With limited data on how environmental stressors — from poor water quality to rising temperatures to contagious diseases — may harm people living and working in U.S. prisons, legislation introduced ...

Kayla Missman specializes in making complicated topics more approachable. She has eight years of experience in journalism, editing and marketing, allowing her to dive into interesting topics 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 ...

File photo: Water fountains at a Philadelphia charter school in 2019 are turned off because of lead in the plumbing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

"Baltimore is sinking, and the sea is rising," Benjamin Zaitchik pronounced on a drizzly, late-summer day in his office at Johns Hopkins University. A professor of Earth and planetary sciences, ...