Opinion: HHS’s proposed rule pays lip service to addressing the climate crisis, the greatest threat to human health
HHS's proposal for addressing the climate crisis serves as an example of what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt defined as the "banality of evil."
In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the world’s most powerful health care agency — responsible for overseeing the largest of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e), or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. HHS is largely responsible for the health care industry’s carbon pollution because the federal government is the . What HHS proposed for addressing the climate crisis is a regulatory illusion intended to accomplish nothing.
