Climate change is a critical public health issue — one that hospitals need to do more to address. Every year, U.S. hospitals are emitting 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases , generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually, and spending
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Feb 25 2016, 06:50 AM
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