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Dr. Brian Moench of UPHE: “Stericycle is constantly releasing what really amounts to poison”

(EnviroNews Utah) – The most familiar face in Utah environmentalism addresses a crowd of concerned and even downright angry citizens at a heated town-hall meeting in North Salt Lake.

The issue at hand: Stericycle Specialty Waste Solutions, Inc., which is one of the last remaining hazardous medical waste incineration facilities in the country.

Heated Town Hall Goes Down over Medical Waste Plant – Stericycle Reps Duck Out of Meeting Early as Sen. Todd Weiler (R) Tries to Defend Them against Angry Crowd

(EnviroNews Utah) – A handful of informed citizens in the Greater Salt Lake area had been waiting for this moment for years. That is, the opportunity to engage directly, in an open town hall format, with representatives from one of America’s well-guarded dirty little medical secrets. Stericycle Inc., an ...

Dr. Brian Moench of UPHE Discusses the Potentially Deadly Burning of Prions by Stericycle Medical Incinerator

(EnviroNews Utah) - Following Stericycle's admission last Thursday night where the company acknowledged it is allowed to accept and burn deadly and largely indestructible prions, protestors took to the streets outside one of the nation's last standing medical waste incineration plants. Prions are the malformed proteins responsible for causing ...

Dr. Tyler Yeates MD Calls Out Stericycle For Incinerating Deadly Brain-Attacking Prions Into the Environment – Stericycle Owns Up to it

(EnviroNews Utah) – North Salt Lake City - In a shocking admission Thursday night at a heated town hall meeting, a VP from Stericycle has admitted that the company is allowed to accept and burn deadly and arguably indestructible brain-destroying prions at its North Salt Lake incineration facility — ...

Bradley Angel of GreenAction on Stericycle Medical Incinerator and How They Helped Shut Down Other Medical Waste Facilities

(EnviroNews Utah) - With the North Salt Lake and Foxboro communities up in arms regarding compliance issues for Stericycle medical incinerator, protestors gathered outside the hazardous waste plant with a unified message of immediate and total shut down of the controversial business. Stericycle had been busted earlier this year ...

And You Thought Canada Had Tar Sands? — UT/CO Have 25X More And They’re Ripping into It

(EnviroNews Utah) - EDITOR'S NOTE: When originally released, this documentary filmed was titled, "Families Camp Out in Protest to Save the Tavaputs Plateau from America’s First Approved Commercial Tar Sands Mine." The transcript reads as follows: Tar sands, oil sands, asphalt, and bituminous sands. These names all represent the ...

Children Discover and Play With Toxic Bitumen Tar Sands at America’s First Approved Commercial Oil Sands Mine

(EnviroNews Utah) - On the weekend of June 21, 2013, families gathered together at the PR Springs area to learn about tar sands as part of the educational campout organized by Utah Tar Sands Resistance. Children were able to see what leaking tar looked and smelled like and to ...

Anonymous Oil CEO Speaks to the Toxic Dangers Encountered by Oil Industry Workers Everyday

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – In follow up fashion to our first three episodes with this mysterious oilman in black, the sitting North American oil and gas CEO of over 20 years speaks to the incredible dangers and health hazards encountered by your common oil-patch worker everyday.

See Why This Man’s Being Called “America’s Bike-Friendliest Mayor”

(EnviroNews Utah) - In light of mounting concern over air pollution and a distressed climate as we soared past 400 parts per million Co2 in the atmosphere last month, people are asking more and more just what they can do to take the climate bull by the horns at ...

How Would You Feel About an Oil Drill-Rig in Your Backyard?

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Duchesne, Utah -- [Editor's Note: This piece formerly had a sub-header. The title was: How Would You Feel about an Oil Drill Rig in Your Backyard? Helpless Residents of Utah's Duchesne County Are about to Find out Just How It Feels] -- The transcript is as follows: One of ...

Rascally Lion Cub Takes a Spill and Frightens His Poor Sleeping Mother – Adorable!

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) - This rather sizable lion pride from South Africa was seen here just lying and panting around after engorging themselves to a simply incapacitating level from a very convenient opportunity, where an old rhino had passed away. His horn had been removed by game officials ...

Welcome to EnviroNews Montana!

(EnviroNews Montana) - Welcome to the official opening of EnviroNews Montana. Please enjoy a lovely change of pace with this short film featuring picturesque video clips emanating from two of Montana's most pristine wilderness areas. The Beartooth Mountain Range and Montana's Bitter Root Valley are legendary for their long ...

What’s Really Behind the RAW MILK RAIDS and FDA-Fueled ‘Men in Black Goon Squads’?

(EnviroNews California) - The battle over the safety of raw milk has been heating up over the past several years, and Organic Pastures Dairy Co. has been at the forefront of this food safety war, a war that they, and countless other Americans say, is nothing more than a ...

The UPSIDE of Utah’s Crummy Air Pollution Problem

(EnviroNews Utah) - From the EnviroNews Utah archives, this incredible and simply angelic sunset was filmed as part of a project that had the time consuming goal of time-lapsing 100 breathtaking sunsets on Antelope Island in the downright awesome ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake. One might ask: "Why ...

Climate Hero Tim DeChristopher Free From Prison at Last

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) - The day has finally arrived, and climate hero Tim DeChristopher, a.k.a. "Bidder 70" is free of the Federal prison system, well minus three years of crummy and cumbersome probation. In this segment, we recap what was truly one of the most inspiring, yet heart-wrenching ...