(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Editor’s Note: The following news piece represents the third in a 15-part mini-series titled, Nuclear Power in Our World Today, featuring nuclear authority, engineer and whistleblower Arnie Gundersen. The EnviroNews USA special encompasses a wide span of topics, ranging from Manhattan-era madness to…
(EnviroNews Arizona) — Windowrock, Arizona — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey addressed an audience, Friday, August 14, 2015, at the Navajo Nation Code Talkers Museum as part of a celebration. Amidst the attendees were dozens of protesters holding signs and chanting concerns over potential…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — Editorial: In response to the catastrophic Gold King, Animas River mine-tailing spill, caused by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) itself on August 5, 2015, Gina McCarthy and the Agency have made a patently false statement to the media. McCarthy assured the press in…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Well, not surprisingly, old “Puff the Toxic Dragon” has been at it again. What’s that? — one might ask. Only bombing hundreds of thousands of people along the Salt Lake Valley’s Wasatch Front with downright deadly air pollution — air pollution loaded with “HAPs” or…
(EnviroNews Utah) — On Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, Communities for Clean Air (CCA) and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE) held a press conference calling for the shutdown of Stericycle based on the allegations from a former employee interviewed by EnviroNews Executive Editor Emerson Urry. Bradley Angel…
(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 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 – Rep. Patrice Arent of District 36 took to the podium to address a crowd of approximately 5,000 on Saturday in what would play out as the largest environmental rally/protest in Utah State history. Her message — “Our voices must not stop…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Salt Lake City – In response to the Utah Attorney General’s Office awarding the “Attorney of the Year” trophy to Christian Stephens, the lawyer at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) who has been fighting to suppress the lawsuits against the Kennecott and Tesoro pollution…
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