Let's presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism ...

One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed. Facing a spate of orders, pronouncements, and ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the department will shift its research into autism toward potential environmental causes, though he declined to ...

As marine life in California are continuing to be affected by the toxic algae outbreak, the state's Department of Fish and ...

UC Riverside professor of environmental toxicology, David Volz argues that California lawmakers should prevent furniture ...

The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the ...

The Trump administration has decimated an agency responsible for carrying out much of the research and prevention efforts to ...

If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered ...

In the warm summertime waters of Lake Erie, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can proliferate out of control, creating algal blooms that produce toxins at a rate that can harm wildlife and human ...

Conflicting findings in environmental epidemiology have long stalled consensus on the health effects of toxic chemicals. A ...

The Trump administration will set limits on the amount of “forever chemicals” producers of the toxic substances can discharge ...