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The facility offers primary care and pediatric care and has specialty care departments. Kaiser Permanente will offer members more choices for receiving care with its newly expanded Everett Medical Center. The Everett Medical Center offers primary care and pediatric care and has specialty care departments for cardiology, urology, orthopedics, spine care, sports medicine, gynecology, urogynecology,…

The 420,000-square-foot structure of glass, brick and steel took eight years to plan and construct. Scripps Health opened the doors to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla’s new North Tower, a $664 million, 8-floor inpatient building that features comprehensive mother-baby services, advanced technology operating rooms and spacious private patient rooms designed for premier care. With the…

Few of the nearly 8,000 companies with validated science-based net zero targets make headlines for reaching that milestone. But for Shein, which has come to symbolize the excesses of cheap, trend-driven fashion, the news drew widespread criticism from sustainability experts. “If Shein were sincere, perhaps we wouldn’t see emissions grow quite so astronomically recently,” said…

Wildfires are no longer a seasonal or regional threat. Once thought to primarily affect the western United States, wildfire smoke is now impacting facilities across the country, often in places hundreds of miles from the nearest flames. In 2024 alone, the U.S. saw nearly 65,000 fires scorch close to 9 million acres—surpassing the 10-year average…

The ground beneath us is anything but still. In a time when extreme weather events like wildfires and floods frequently dominate headlines, it’s easy to forget that earthquakes remain one of the most unpredictable and destructive forces we face, particularly on the West Coast. In December 2024, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of…

Across the U.S., heat remains the leading cause of weather-related fatalities, putting those working outdoors or in non-climate-controlled indoor spaces directly at risk. Early forecasts suggest that the summer of 2025 will be above the historical average, just after 2024 was named the hottest year on record in over a century. As extreme heat becomes…