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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, demanding ...

MD: Climate Deniers “are betting the future on a team that’s down 80-0 with one minute left in the 4th quarter”

(EnviroNews Utah) - Demonstrators rallied together outside of the Sweet Library in the Avenues of Salt Lake City on Wednesday to send a loud and clear message: "We believe in science!" The town-hall featuring freshman Republican congressman Chris Stewart drew the crowd of disgruntled citizens due in large part ...

Will Munger Reminding People That “on the Air Quality Board sits members of the Tesoro Corporation”

(EnviroNews Utah) - Will Munger of Canyon Country Rising Tide pumped up a crowd of demonstrators at a rally preceding a town-hall featuring Republican Representative Chris Stewart. He made sure to remind people that Tesoro, one of the refineries that is expanding to accommodate increased Uintah Basin crude oil ...

Moderator Tries to Control Media Taping at a Town-hall for Rep. Chris Stewart and is Stuffed By Image Providers and EnviroNews Utah

(EnviroNews Utah) – The moral of this story is as our producer said “very simple.” Never try to shut down an EnviroNews cameraman or camerawoman from rolling tape at a public meeting. Thank you.

“When there’s red air days, expect blockades at refineries!”

(EnviroNews Utah) - Will Munger in response to a heated town-hall featuring freshman Congressman Chris Stewart:

It's time that we stop listening to people like Representative Stewart. They're not representing our interests, and they are beholden to their corporate overlords to the point where they are lying to us ...

Team Erin Brockovich on Stericycle: “We’re going to see some people go to jail for this!”

(EnviroNews Utah) - Concerned and downright outraged citizens congregated outside preceding a town-hall that featured freshman Republican Congressman Chris Stewart, who just also happens to be the Chair of the Congressional environmental subcommittee. The groups and individals shared a unified message that preached the same ideal from a multitude ...

Should Rep. Chris Stewart Sign Over the Deed On His House to This Medical Doctor Over EPA Bet?

(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City - “Let me challenge you on something. Would you be willing to bet your house against my house, that you cannot find anywhere where I said, or advocated, or suggested that we dissolve the EPA? Would you be willing to do that?” These ...

Rep. Chris Stewart Skates Out Backdoor After Claiming He Had the “Courage” to Meet With Environmental Groups

(EnviroNews Utah) - In this episode of community activism wherein a multitude of Utah's top environmental groups had coalesced around a town-hall featuring freshman Republican Congressman Chris Stewart, just about everything you can imagine went down. Following a warmup rally where the groups were protesting Stewart's controversial subpoenaing of ...

Remembering the Late Jack Herer As He Sat On a Panel Regarding Uranium Drilling at the 2007 Seattle Hemp Fest

(EnviroNews Washington) - In celebration of Washington State's new and sensible marijuana laws, tens of thousands filed into Seattle's annual Hemp Fest yet again this past weekend. So, in light of Washington's new laws of compassion, we take a little walk down memory lane with our very first broadcast ...

What a Bypass at One of America’s Last Standing Medical Waste Incinerators Looks Like (Stericycle)

(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) - This bypass episode was sent into EnviroNews Utah on July 24, 2013 by Beth Brown, a concerned local citizen who runs Studio 2B Photography. Stericycle (medical waste incinerator) was recently busted for being out of compliance with their Title V air pollution ...

Silver Eagle Refinery Caught Spewing Big Black Toxic Smoke by Citizen Watchdogs

(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) - This documentation of an emergency bypass event at Silver Eagle oil refinery was taped and sent into EnviroNews Utah via the Community Watch. The large toxic burp was seen, heard, and smelled between 5:10 and 5:20 PM on August 19, 2013. That's ...

Stericycle Protestors Persist as Erin Brockovich Signs on to the Cause

(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) - North Salt Lake City - Outraged citizens from all over the Salt Lake Valley and even out of state were at it again last Thursday. That is, protesting North Salt Lake’s Stericycle medical waste incineration plant, a facility that the Utah Physicians ...

Dr. Moench/Sen. Weiler Showdown Over ‘Skewed’ DEQ Air Pollution Numbers

(EnviroNews Utah) - In a move that few constituents from District 23 could understand, their State Senator, Todd Weiler a Republican, first made a move to defend representatives of Stericycle medical waste incineration facility at an emotional town-hall when they ducked out of the meeting early during a Q ...

Dr. Scott Hurst MD at the Stericycle Town-hall Meeting: “Studies suggest that 2/3 of this epidemic of autism is environmentally caused”

(EnviroNews Utah) - At a heated town-hall meeting focusing on the compliance and record-falsification issues surrounding Stericycle medical waste incinerator, Dr. Scott Hurst, anesthesiologist and member of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE), echoed the new bombshell findings of a recently released Harvard study that strongly links ...

Amy Uchida, 4th Year Medical Student at the U of U, is Asked About Stericycle’s Incineration of Deadly Prions

(EnviroNews Utah) - According to documents on the Department of Environmental Quality website, Stericycle’s permit needs to be renewed by August 19, 2013. The company’s current permit expires on Feb. 19, 2014. Regg Olsen is listed as the contact at the Department of Air Quality (DAQ) in charge of ...