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Arturo Gómez, 80, carries one of his three dogs through his home in July in La Lomas Colonia in Rio Grande City, Texas, where they all suffer from the rising temperatures and high cost of electricity.

Insurance-covered health claims account for 91% of premium increases … Millions of Americans lack home AC to cut risk of heat ...

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Alek Micklethwait stands in front of a portable air conditioning unit on August 10, 2026, at his home in Hutto, Texas. Credit: Brian Diggs for Public Watch HUTTO, Texas — When Alek Micklethwait ...

Summer heat is becoming more deadly for the elderly in South Texas with record-breaking temperatures and rising costs for electricity. This is the second installment in our ongoing series, “Powerless.

Insurance-covered health claims account for 91% of premium increases … Millions of Americans lack home AC to cut risk of heat-related deaths … and more.

A survey of residents in five counties finds costs, access and delays in getting treatment are putting people at risk.

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a ...

Radiologist Brandon Crum scrutinizes images of coal miners’ lungs in his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky. All the lungs shown here are riddled with fibrotic tissue, the breath-stealing signature ...