Experts caution the groups play a key role in ensuring agencies use the best available science in their decision making.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:     Section 1.

Officials in other countries are warning about the health hazards of alcohol in any amount. Americans are still told that moderate drinking is safe. What gives?

The actor stars as a young Bob Dylan, who woos folk followers only to betray them later at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Hiroko Tabuchi covers pollution and the environment for The Times. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years in Tokyo and New York.

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The step follows an extraordinary move that requires utilities to reduce the levels of carcinogenic PFAS compounds in drinking water to near-zero.

The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”

The $15 million settlement follows several unsuccessful Trump lawsuits against “fake news” media outlets.

In 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...

If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine?

Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think

The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more.

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discussed vaccination policy, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.

This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.

A renowned psychiatrist and activist compares Trump’s election to other pivotal historical moments in which the ultimate victim was truth itself

California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.

By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

The US government, led by Biden in his last months at the presidency, must support a landmark OECD agreement on climate action

I analyzed the public statements of each nominee. It was awful. (Though Matt Gaetz was surprising?)

Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?