A National Academy of Medicine initiative is bringing together leaders across the U.S. health system to reduce its sizable carbon footprint and strengthen resilience to climate-driven health threats.
Climate change is increasingly straining health systems and worsening patient outcomes, but hospitals can respond by redesigning care to reduce emissions and improve resilience.
Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.
