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STAT reports on the effects on human health of pollution, chemical spills and waste, and toxins. STAT also covers health disparities attributed to environmental hazards, and corporate and government responses to environmental justice concerns.

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Health Jill Neimark

Experts weigh in on potential health hazards posed by chemicals in Ohio train derailment

Biotech Betsy Ladyzhets

STAT Plus: Under pressure, biotech and pharma grapple with how to take climate action

First Opinion Ashley Ward

Current heat warning systems are woefully inadequate in an age of climate change

Special Report Karen Pennar

‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution

Health Sara Van Note

West Nile, Lyme, and other diseases are on the rise with climate change. Experts warn the U.S. is not prepared

Health Lauren Gravitz

Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

Health Brittany Trang

Why EPA’s long-awaited proposal on two ‘forever chemicals’ is bound to be controversial

First Opinion Matthew J. Meyer

Doctors pledge to do no harm. The entire health care sector should do the same by battling climate change

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Health Brittany Trang

EPA announces proposed drinking water limits for six ‘forever chemicals’

First Opinion Matthew J. Meyer

How you can inspire your clinicians to reduce health-care-generated climate change

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First Opinion Vanessa Kerry

Leaders at Davos need to pay attention to the crossroads of climate change, health, and security

First Opinion Susan Arnold

Real-time data are needed to monitor health after disasters

Special Report Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: A minuscule new HHS office has a mammoth goal: tackling environmental justice

First Opinion Michelle A. Williams and Lawrence O. Gostin

Will there be a Supreme assault on public health?

First Opinion David Introcaso

How the Inflation Reduction Act can help decarbonize the health care industry

First Opinion Ned Calonge, Jane Hoppin and Alex R. Kemper

Report: More people should be tested for potential exposure to ‘forever chemicals’

Health Seth Borenstein — Associated Press

Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

First Opinion David Blumenthal

Keeping climate provisions in the budget reconciliation act is a key step toward protecting Americans’ health

Health Edward Chen

In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops

First Opinion Kees Wesdorp

Health care has a carbon problem. Health tech can help fix it

First Opinion David Introcaso

FDA user fee legislation needs to mitigate the pharmaceutical industry’s carbon pollution

First Opinion David Introcaso

HHS’s failure to address the health harms of the climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism

First Opinion Joseph G. Allen

Biden administration (finally) elevates healthy buildings as part of national Covid strategy

First Opinion Sierra Nesbit and Jenna Phillips

Hospitals need to get ahead of regulations on climate change

First Opinion Bruce Farber and Aradhana Khameraj

Health care workers don unnecessary protective gear. The CDC and WHO need to update their PPE guidance

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Toxic levels of pharmaceuticals threaten the health of the world’s rivers

First Opinion David Introcaso

The National Academy of Medicine’s climate crisis effort must turn words into action

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

First Opinion Emily Mediate and Neel Shah

A perfect storm: Climate disasters are magnifying the U.S.’s maternal health crisis

First Opinion Gaige Kerr and Susan Anenberg

The pandemic made clear who doesn’t get to breathe clean air. Now what?

First Opinion David Introcaso and Walt Vernon

Public reporting: the first step in addressing the health care industry’s bloated carbon footprint

Health Rebecca Sohn

Prenatal exposure to ultra-fine particles increases a child’s risk of asthma, study finds

First Opinion Michelle McMurry-Heath

To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences