After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung
A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.
Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world
The summer of 2023 is behaving like a broken record about broken records. Nearly every major climate-tracking organization proclaimed June the hottest June ever. Then July 4 became the globe’s hottest day, albeit unofficially, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
CMS Approves California & Kentucky Requests to Provide Essential Behavioral Health Services Through Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today approved proposals from California and Kentucky for community-based mobile crisis intervention teams to provide Medicaid crisis services.
California Energy Commissioner visits Soboba Tribe and lauds clean energy projects
California Energy Commissioner Noemi Gallardo visited the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians June 21 to recognize the Tribe’s implementation of clean energy solutions, including...
Tornado damage to Pfizer plant unlikely to cause major drug supply shortages, FDA says
Most of the destruction from a tornado that tore through eastern North Carolina Wednesday and struck a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, rather than its medicine production areas, the company said Friday.
