Health

“For all years and pollutants, the racial/ethnic group with the highest national average exposure was a racial/ethnic minority group,”

The omicron variant offers yet another reason for caution in the age of COVID-19. Now that you’re in the know, keep yourself safer with a few thoughtful tips.

"The evidence overwhelmingly supports the need to pass the Build Back Better Act."

As bacteria become less likely to die from existing antibiotics, it is harder for scientists and doctors to treat infections and protect public health.

“Our immediate focus is to ensure every Oregonian knows these critical harm reduction and recovery services are being invested in and expanded so that they will be available to anyone who wants and needs them, and that they can feel comfortable and safe accessing them.”

The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we’ll see.

“Our leaders’ failure to help bring the vaccines to everyone, everywhere will keep us on a cruel and never-ending cycle of illness, death, and economic suffering.”

Barbara Weckesser and her neighbors told regulators that air pollution was making them sick. The law let them ignore her.

"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."

At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?