(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that over 98% of medical students recite on graduation day. Their sacred pledge: “DO NO HARM.” — but little do most of them realize that a downright deadly culprit is undoing and undermining their solemnly sworn Hippocratic…
(EnviroNews Utah) – The views expressed in this interview are the opinions of the interviewee and do not necessarily represent the views of EnviroNews or its corresponding journalists, executives, or affiliated networks. Emerson Urry: Okay, we’re here on Environews Utah this evening with an ex-employee of the Stericycle medical waste incineration…
(EnviroNews Idaho) — Boise — Nearly 98,000 acres have been leased by the state of Idaho for oil and gas drilling within the past two years. Many of those acres are sprawled across the same five counties Umpqua Bank Mortgage Loan Officer Kevin Spencer does business in. With…
(EnviroNews Utah) — North Salt Lake City — Like a child with a bedwetting problem, it would appear that Stericycle medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake City just can’t help it. That is, they just can’t get their releases under control. The problem is, Stericycle’s emissions are…
(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) — North Salt Lake — At about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, residents of Foxboro were caught in another Stericycle bypass event as fire and black smoke billowed out of the unfiltered bypass stack at the medical waste incinerator in…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – In a press conference at the state capitol on Feb. 13, 2014, Dr. Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment lambasted the Utah Department of Health’s recently released Stericycle and Cancer study and the representation of that study…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – Concerned neighbors in Foxboro and South Davis County are not satisfied with the proposed move of Stericycle’s medical waste incineration plant a mere 30 miles away to Tooele. Not only is that still in the Wasatch airshed where Stericycle has been…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – Blue Mountain Hospital in Blanding, UT switched to a SteriMed system to get rid of its medical waste and hasn’t looked back since its implementation. Dwight Morgan, senior vice president of Strategic Business Development and International Sales for SteriMed Medical Waste…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau via EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – People are dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah’s absolutely debilitating and deadly air-pollution crisis. If that sounds a little harsh, it isn’t, and as a matter of fact, it is…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – The Smog Lake City Singers, musician Tom Bennett, and a song written by local fourth graders provided some levity and musical interludes as part of the Clean Air, No Excuses Rally on Jan. 25, 2014, at the Utah State Capitol. The…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – Amidst the announcement that Stericycle is now intending to move their medical waste incinerating plant from North Salt Lake to Tooele, Bob Bowcock of Team Erin Brockovich took to the podium in what turned out to be the largest environmental protest…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – As a news anchor, Dick Nourse served the people of Utah longer than any other anchor in Utah history — 43 years, and as a matter of fact, Mr. Nourse educated his loyal audience night after night from behind the KSL…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – At the Clean Air, No Excuses rally on Jan. 25, 2014, at the State Capitol, Dr. Brian Moench of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment explained exactly how to solve Utah’s complex and crippling air pollution problem. “The average Utahn walks…
(EnviroNews California) – The infamous accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power facility is typically the first meltdown that comes to mind when people think about nuclear disasters in America. While journalists and editors at CNN have reported it was the worst nuclear meltdown ever in the United…
(EnviroNews California) – Los Angeles – While speaking with Erin Brockovich, the topic of the worst environmental disasters in California history came up. The following list of the top 10 man-made environmental disasters that California has experienced contains some disturbing information about what the government and corporations have…
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