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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 ...

Will Redrawing Core Sage Grouse Areas in Wyoming Help Save the Bird From Extinction?

(EnviroNews Wyoming) -- Douglas, Wyoming -- In late April a gloomy report was issued by Pew Charitable Trusts that claims there is a 98.7 percent chance greater sage grouse will go extinct in Wyoming's Powder River Basin in 30 years if the current course continues. The Powder River ...

WildEarth Guardians: DOI’s Bi-State Sage Grouse ‘Conservation Success’ Is ‘Window Dressing’

(EnviroNews Wyoming) -- Douglas, Wyoming -- On April 21, 2015 Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Sally Jewell appeared in Reno, Nevada to make a pivotal Bi-State Sage Grouse Announcement: No protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the bi-state distinct population of the greater ...

Sec. Sally Jewell Announces DOI Will Not List Bi-State Sage Grouse as Endangered

(EnviroNews Nevada) -- Reno, Nevada -- To the dismay and disappointment of environmentalists, conservationists and biologist alike, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Sally Jewell announced on April 21, 2015 (which also happened to be Earth Day) that the bi-state sage grouse will not be making its way onto ...

Fracking Activist Alma Hasse Files $1.5 Million Lawsuit for ‘Wrongful Arrest’ After All Charges Dropped

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- Idaho fracking activist Alma Hasse is seeking $1.5 million in damages from Payette County after being arrested at a public hearing and held in the county jail for eight days in October of 2104. On April 6, 2015, Hasse, represented by Nicholas Warden, ...

All Charges Against Grandmother Fracking Activist Dropped — Major Lawsuit Ahead

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- It's been six months since Idaho activist Alma Hasse was arrested during a public Payette County Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) meeting and her legal troubles stemming from the incident are now over. On April 2, 2015 the charges brought by Payette County against Hasse were ...

Rare Wildlife Footage: Antelope Buck Strolls Through Sage Grouse Lek During ‘Ritual Mating Dance’

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- There's been a lot in the way of local news about the imperiled Centrocercus urophasianus as of late, or sage grouse as it is commonly called. State governments and ranchers, as well as coal, oil, gas and mining companies, all have their meddling-hands in the issue ...

H.B. 226 Passes Senate Sparking Hope for Utah’s Air Quality Movement

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- As the Utah legislative season moved toward a final curtain (by law, the lawmaking ends on the 45th day at midnight), the big decisions left to be made fell into categories including those that would need money to enact and those ...

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 went ...

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 such ...

Utah Republican Senator Says We Actually Need More Manmade CO2

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- The day after Utah had experienced hurricane-force winds that blew particulate matter out of Utah's typically stagnant and nastily polluted airshed, Senator Scott K. Jenkins of Weber and Davis Counties told his colleagues and our news camera, "The fact is, the ...

Utah Kids for Clean Air Urge House Committee to Support ‘Stricter Than EPA’ Bill

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- When little Ella, Abby and Anna got up in front of the Utah House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee on February 13, 2015, they repeated a common yet sad message that shocks many people when they hear it for the ...

Three Lone Democrats Fight for Idahoans’ Property Rights While GOP Caves to Big Oil

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Boise, Idaho -- Private property rights for Idaho landowners have been ceded by the Republican party running the legislature. An example of this recently unfolded during 2015's ongoing legislative session in Boise, Idaho, as lawmakers consider new rules for the oil and gas industry. One hot-button ...

S.B. 87 Offers Vital Change in Cleaning up Utah’s Toxic Air — Interview with Sen. Gene Davis

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- In 2014, two bills sought to change, or eliminate entirely, an old code that has hobbled Utah's regulatory agencies from doing anything unique to solve the state's ongoing air pollution crisis. Section 19-2-106, implemented nearly three decades ago, hamstrings Utah's Department ...