After the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, experts said that even security plans that appear to be up to the latest standards may have gaps and fall short.

Childhood testing for lead poisoning fell steeply at the beginning of the pandemic, and it hasn't rebounded, new data shows.

Portable generators, which emit carbon monoxide, are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, people are left vulnerable by a system that lets the industry regulate itself.

Nursing home residents evacuated to an overcrowded Louisiana facility slept on wet mattresses and lacked adequate food, lawsuits and state reports allege.

Months after the deadly gas killed at least 17 Texans during a storm, lawmakers have not taken significant action to protect most of the state’s residents.

The summer heat is most dangerous for low-income communities, where many lack air conditioning. Housing advocates want to change that.

Following a 911 call, first responders arrived at a home. No one answered the door, so they left. Inside, an entire family was being poisoned by carbon monoxide.

A family used their car to stay warm when a storm brought down the Texas power grid. In a state that doesn’t require CO alarms, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

Housing industry groups said some of HUD's proposed requirements would be too costly. But they now fall short of nationally adopted safety codes.

Hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled Americans are on waiting lists for home caregivers. A proposal to help them is caught in political limbo.

The inaction disappointed some progressive advocates, who had urged Democrats in Congress to strike the Trump-era rules as quickly as possible.