Nonprofit hospitals have an obligation to help their communities, but the people who live nearby may see little benefit
Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
Jan. 29, 2024 • ~10 min
Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.
This particularly physical kind of philanthropy caught on in the mid-20th century.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking into new rules for trains. Trucks, however, are involved in thousands more hazmat incidents every year in the US.
Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities' drinking water. The solution: Cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff.
Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.
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