Healthcare, Heal Thyself

The irony is almost too obvious to state: tens of thousands of hospitals, doctors' offices, medical laboratories, and assorted other health-care providers spew toxic substances into the environment, or dispose of trash containing a noxious mix of contaminated or infectious waste. Some of it will make its way into the air, water, and soil. All of it potentially endangers the health of people and other living things.

But that's quickly changing, as activists, regulators, and concerned health professionals come to understand that the industry needs some environmental CPR.

For more, read my latest monthly column in Grist.

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