It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement.
Residents and scientists had called for research on health risks for years, while industry campaign denied links.
Ending the pandemic emergency increases burdens for people with long COVID.
How to follow the heat to the next disease; and how following the science got a researcher in trouble.
The first of its kind legislation holds companies liable for illness from urban drilling.
Watchdogs call for creation of an environmental justice office, better monitoring of Clean Air Act violations.
Critics call for removal of state agency’s economic mandate.
The California surplus is available to some, but for 61 local public health department workers there’s little but tough love.
Politics have divided the state on masks and vaccinations, but there may still be hope for underserved communities.
American children die of measles and whooping cough not because of shortages of vaccine sera, or trained nurses, but because their parents have bought into antivaccine narratives that argue, without providing scientific proof, the sera are linked to children developing autism.
Debate about parental leave has long focused on the benefits for working families and the supposed costs to employers. But more fundamentally, ensuring that new parents have the support and time they need to bond with their children is essential to public health and to infant development.