Tag Archives: EnviroNews Utah

Chevron Refinery Burps Off Fire and Massive Black Smoke Plume in Morning Bypass

(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) – North Salt Lake City – Yesterday, at around 7:50 a.m., a concerned citizen pulled out a camera and snapped photos of fire atop the Chevron smokestack coupled with a massive belch of black smoke from the old refinery in North Salt…

Known for ‘Saving White Rocks Canyon’ From Tar Sands Mining, Lewis Cooper Gives Encouraging Advice to Tavaputs Oil Sands Activists

(EnviroNews California) – White Rocks, Utah – After a 105 hour work week, and a whirlwind, 5 day, start-to-finish documentary production on America’s first approved commercial tar sands mine in Utah’s pristine Tavaputs Plateau, EnviroNews USA Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry raced across the massive Uintah Basin oil turf in…

The Power of Divestment – How This Man Stopped a Tar Sands Strip Mine in Glorious White Rocks Canyon

(EnviroNews Utah) – Roosevelt — di·vest [dih-vest, dahy-] – to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title This is the story of Lewis Cooper, an ex-Pennzoil Capital Relations Manager who also happens to be one of only five neighbors that live up glorious White Rocks Canyon,…

PRION BOMBS! – Physicians Group Says Stericycle Undoubtedly Releasing Deadly Prions and Radiation

(EnviroNews Utah) – PRION: a word that many have never even heard before, but little do they know that this deadly and virulent “pest” may be lurking right on their dinner plate, or inside their cute little pets Fluffy and Rover, or even right in dear ol’ Gramma’s…

Hippocratic Oath: DO NO HARM – MD Exposes the Hypocrisy Surrounding the Deadly Medical Waste Business

(EnviroNews Utah) – “DO NO HARM”: That is the essence of the Hippocratic Oath uttered by roughly 98% of all American medical students upon graduation, but at that point, little do many of them realize that a dirty and downright sinister corner of the greater medical complex is…

Pediatrician on Stericycle: “Children living within a 5 kilometer radius of an incinerator have a doubling of their cancer risk”

(EnviroNews Utah) – If you like to know about the medical science concerning increased disease risk at close proximity to an incinerator, this video is for you! Taped at the “Shut Down Stericycle Press Conference” on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City Utah, this segment features Dr. Ellie…

Sarah Sargent at the Stericycle Press Conference on Capitol Hill: “It was a rotten egg and sulfur smell unlike anything I have ever smelled”

(EnviroNews Utah) – On friday August 6th, once again, after normal business hours, and after the Utah Department of Air Quality had closed their doors for the day, an amazing emergency bypass even was taped and sent into local EnviroNews Utah. The culprit this time, Stericycle medical waste…

Just A Few of the Faces Affected by the Burning of Deadly Medical Waste

(EnviroNews Utah) – Due in large part to a sensational video captured by alert citizen Aaron Wiley on friday last week, a compelling press conference went down today on Capitol Hill. The content of the video was a massive emergency bypass burped forth by Stericycle medical waste incineration…

Todd Jenson Preaches a Mass Transit Sermon While Blasting the Utah Legislature and UDOT

(EnviroNews Utah) – “I have a question for our legislators, and that is: Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” That was the inquiry posed by Todd Jenson to the Utah State Legislature in front of a crowd of demonstrators outside of a contentious town-hall featuring freshman Utah…

The New Official Position of Utah Moms for Clean Air: “Companies like Tesoro and Stericycle need to move out of this valley!”

(EnviroNews Utah) – ‘We were here first! We’re grandfathered in!’ That’s what they always try’n say when people talk about kicking these guys out of the neighborhood. Who’s that you might ask? BIG polluters. I mean, the task just seems so humongous and insurmountable doesn’t it? That is,…