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The Dirty Deadly Front End of Nuclear Power — 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines (Pt. 1)
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Medical Waste Madness — ‘The Devil’s Work’ — Stericycle Plant Whistleblower Tells All (Documentary)
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Lions and Tigers and… Sage Grouse? Oh My! — The Granddaddy Endangered Species Battle of Them All
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Neil Young on Climate Change, Keystone XL and Tar Sands at the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in DC
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Take a Walk on a Leaky Uintah Basin Oil Well With a Whistleblowing Oil and Gas CEO
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If You Like Lightning, You’ll Love This! — Jaw-Dropping Electrical Storm Filmed Over the Great Salt Lake
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PRION BOMBS! – Physicians Group Says Stericycle Undoubtedly Releasing Deadly Prions and Radiation
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EnviroNews Reporter Tries in Vain to Save Adorable Chipmunk Trapped in Deadly Oozing Tar Sands Bitumen
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Video: Big West Refinery Bombs Salt Lake Airshed With Saturday Afternoon Bypass
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Massive Emergency Bypass Goes down at Stericycle Medical Waste Plant as Panicked Residents Run for Cover (Video)
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Phenomenal and Competitive Wildlife Party Goes Down on Alaska’s Final Frontier
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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 respectively, ...

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 issue ...

Utah Gay Marriage Leader Derek Kitchen Takes up New Human Rights Issue — Air Pollution

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- Derek Kitchen knows something about working to establish "inalienable rights" in Utah. As a plaintiff with his partner, Moudi Sbeity, he was responsible for establishing the “right to love” in the reddest state in America, a place traditionally opposed to gay ...

Famed Musician Kurt Bestor on Air Pollution: ‘I knew I had found my cause’

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- Following a hampering string of "Red Air" days, last year's "Clean Air No Excuses" rally constituted the largest air-pollution-specific event in U.S., and possibly world history, according to research conducted at local EnviroNews Utah, and 2015's "Clean Air No Excuses II" ...

Payette County Admits Allowing Oil Company to Break the Law on Road Use

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- What's easier than making oil and gas companies follow the law? How about changing the rules? That's what officials in Payette County, Idaho are attempting after it became apparent current regulations are not being complied with. The oil and gas industry could drastically ...

President Obama Speaks to Pumped-up Boise State University Crowd Following State of the Union

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau and EnviroNews Idaho) -- Boise, Idaho -- On January 21, 2015 President Barack Obama followed up on his State of the Union address from the night before, choosing Boise State University as the venue. The President seemed to be in a jovial mood and ...

Idaho House Committee Throws Curveball to Industry Holding up Oil and Gas Rules

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Boise, Idaho -- In what represents at least a temporary monkeywrench for the oil and gas business, on Jan. 19, 2015, the Idaho House Resource and Conservation Committee threw the industry a curveball when it decided to hold up a vote on Idaho's newly proposed oil ...

25 Sentenced After Protesting America’s First Commercial Tar Sands Strip Mine

(EnviroNews Utah) -- Salt Lake City, Utah -- 25 activists from the group Utah Tar Sands Resistance (UTSR) were finally sentenced today in a Vernal courtroom in Uintah County, Utah. Most of the individuals sentenced were arrested on July 23, 2014 after chaining themselves to mining equipment inside of ...

Amidst Accusations of Bribery, Corruption, Payette Commissioners Sign off on Natural Gas Plant

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- To virtually no one’s surprise, on January 5, 2015, the Payette County Commission voted unanimously to shoot down three congruent appeals heard last month, and to uphold a previous decision by the Payette County Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) to allow a liquified ...

Sparks Fly at Heated ‘Bomb Train’ Meeting in Idaho’s First Oil-Patch Battle

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- A heated and starkly divided public appeal hearing over a railway transportation facility, a.k.a. "bomb train station," went down in Payette County Idaho on December 4, 2014. The highlights, EnviroNews Idaho's in-depth report, and excerpts from the transcript are as follows:

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Trampled by Oil Company, Legendary Dog Trainer Fights for His Land and Rights

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- Southwest Idaho's natural gas trade has just seventeen wells, of which only one is officially in production. As more infrastructure is needed to support the nascent industry some area businesses may be thrown under the bus to accommodate increased gas production. The first ...

Utah’s Autumn Splendor — Breathtaking Nature and Wildlife Video

(EnviroNews DC News Bureau via EnviroNews Utah) -- This video represents a labor of love and is presented this holiday season from all of us at EnviroNews to you. Showcased here are fall-time highlights captured over the course of several years by EnviroNews Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emerson Urry ...

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 office. ...

No Charges for Oil Exec./Fracking Lobbyist After Assaulting EnviroNews Reporter on Camera

(EnviroNews Idaho) -- Payette, Idaho -- Alta Mesa Idaho vice president and general counsel John Peiserich will not face battery charges stemming from a November 17 scuffle with EnviroNews editor-in-chief Emerson Urry. Urry has recused himself from his editing duties on this article. Prosecutor Bert Osborn released his decision ...

EnviroKids: Shelly the Snail — What she’s been doing in your garden

(EnviroNews California) -- "Helix aspersa," or more commonly known as the garden snail, are one of the slowest creatures on Earth -- moving at a blistering speed of 50 yards per hour or 1.3cm per second! However, what they lack in speed they make up for in strength. Snails ...