Tag Archives: Stericycle Medical Waste Incinerator

The Deadly Dangers of Medical Waste Incineration

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — The following transcript is extracted from the EnviroNews USA full feature documentary Medical Waste Madness — ‘The Devil’s Work’: The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that over 98% of medical students recite on graduation day. Their sacred…

H.B. 226, Utah’s Last Hope in 2015 for Significant Changes in Air Quality Policy (In-depth exclusive with Rep. Becky Edwards)

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Senate Bill 87, authored by Senator Gene Davis, was considered by many to be the strongest air pollution bill in the lineup in this year’s legislative session at the Utah Capitol. To the disappointment of many air warriors, that bill…

ANATOMY OF A KILLED BILL: How Utah’s Strongest Air Pollution Bill Was Dead on Arrival

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — A groundswell of public outcry, building over more than three years, has led to further attempts by Utah’s legislature to respond to the demand for air quality improvement. This is especially important in the northern, metropolitan areas of the state…

Bill Allowing Utah to Adopt Regs. Stricter Than EPA Passes Senate Committee, Moves to Floor (Extended Coverage)

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — In what turned out to be a huge blow to environmentalists and Utah air pollution fighters alike, two highly anticipated bills, House Bill 121 and Senate Bill 164, put forth by Republican Representative Becky Edwards and Democratic Senator Gene Davis…

Mormon, Republican Delegate Mother Implores Committee to go Stricter Than EPA on Air Pollution

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Utah often has the most dangerous air pollution in the United States, frequently and repeatedly soaring high above EPA compliance limits for what is considered “safe” for PM 2.5 particulate pollution. The health-hampering air crisis has become the number one…

Stericycle Whistleblower Comes Forward With More Shocking Allegations

(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — These were the types of shocking allegations levied by a masked man in the full-feature documentary titled Medial Waste Madness – ‘The Devil’s Work’ on EnviroNews in September of 2014 — The result: Three investigations launched by the Utah Governor’s…

Medical Waste Incineration Plan Beat Into Submission at Public Meeting in Wyoming

(EnviroNews Wyoming) — Mountain View, Wyoming — “Ive been doing this for 12 years. This is the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen.” Those were the words that came from a member of the Uinta Planning and Zoning Commission at a public meeting on October 22, 2014. The large…

Ol’ ‘Puff the Toxic Dragon’ (Stericycle Emergency Bypass Stack) at it Again

(EnviroNews Utah) — Well, not surprisingly, old “Puff the Toxic Dragon” has been at it again. What’s that? — one might ask. Only bombing hundreds of thousands of people along the Salt Lake Valley’s Wasatch Front with downright deadly air pollution — air pollution loaded with “HAPs” or…

Natasha Hinks at Stericycle Protest: ‘What do they plan to do to clean this up?’

(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — At a protest titled “Protest or Celebration? Governor Herbert? You Decide!”, Natasha Hinks-Henderson, co-helms-woman of Communities for Clean Air took the megaphone in front of the Stericycle medical waste incineration plant in North Salt Lake City, Utah. The protest…

Alicia Connell at Stericycle Protest: ‘How many lives have to be lost before the Governor shuts this place down?’

(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — At a protest titled “Protest or Celebration? Governor Herbert? You Decide!”, Alicia Connell, helms-woman of Communities for Clean Air took the megaphone in front of the Stericycle medical waste incineration plant in North Salt Lake City, Utah. The protest…