UC Berkeley researchers and the California Environmental Protection Agency, or CalEPA, found in a study published Thursday that neighborhoods with high populations of racial minorities are ...

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 ...

Everyone has the right to live safe and healthy lives with equal environmental protections and meaningful participation in decisions affecting their community. Meaningful participation is important ...

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 ...

This funding opportunity seeks to advance the understanding of climate hazard (e.g. extreme heat, sea level rise, flooding and extreme weather events) effects on communities that are overburdened1 by ...

Safety isn’t just a priority at Purdue. Measures to achieve it have been a proven success. With record-low injury rates across the university system in recent years, the Environmental Health and ...

Environmental injustice is not random—it’s systemic. From asthma in children to PFAS in water, underserved communities face higher exposure to environmental hazards every day. Yet these stories rarely ...

In our ongoing efforts to maintain public and environmental health, the dangers posed by waste products from animals are a critical concern. While dog feces are frequently discussed, cat feces often ...

"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, ...