(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City — In this segment, Lori Scow, mother of Ava Scow speaks out about the devastation that “red air” day pollution has wreaked on her family and her daughter’s health, at at press conference regarding Rio Tinto/Kennecott Utah Copper. She goes onto to…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City — Today, Jeremy Nichols, Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians, alongside of the Utah Physicians For a Healthy Environment and the Utah Mom’s For Clean Air, announced the filing of a joint lawsuit against Kennecott Utah Copper. The suit claims…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City — Today, Brian Moench, Founder and President of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, alongside of the Utah Mom’s for Clean Air and WildEarth Guardians announced the filing of a joint lawsuit against Kennecott Utah Copper. The suit claims that Kennecott…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Shelly Marshall of Sustain Utah discusses Utah’s “red air” days at the Capitol in early 2009. Monica Bellenger reporting.
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Ashley Sander of the Utah Moms for Clean Air denounces the planned mine expansion of Kennecott Utah Copper at the Rio Tinto press conference April 14, 2011 at the Salt Lake City Library.
(EnviroNews Utah) -Salt Lake City, Utah — Cherise Udell, President and Founder of the Utah Moms for Clean Air denounces HB 477 on Capitol Hill March 10, 2011
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — In this segment in early 2009, Salt Lake City School children weigh in on Utah’s horrendous air pollution problem at a protest on Capitol Hill orchestrated by the Utah Mom’s for Clean Air. The children had been kept in from…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — This newsreel showcases heated air pollution protests on Capitol Hill in Utah. The protests were initiated by the Utah Mom’s for Clean Air and others after weeks on end of “Red Air Days” where children were not allowed to go…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Here, Monica Bellenger sums up Utah’s dire air pollution problem and discusses the three year mandate placed on Utah by the EPA to meet stricter air quality standards.
(EnviroNews Utah) – Cherise Udell rips Kennecott Utah Copper and Rio Tinto at the Fossil Fools Day of Action near one of their coal-fired power facilities in Salt Lake City. “The pollution that Kennecott creates is harming my children’s lungs, and every child in Utah. It’s harming unborn…
(EnviroNews Utah) – In this short episode we see renowned climate activist Tim DeChristopher leading a crowd of enthusiastic protestors in a chant against Kennecott Utah Copper as part of the Fossil Fools Day of Action. “Hey, hey what do ya’ say? Time for coal to go away!…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On Capitol Hill at what has been deemed as the ‘Clean Air Challenge’ press conference, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon made a strong address to the press on behalf of Utah’s lingering air pollution problem. At EnviroNews Utah, we have scarcely heard the word…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On a cold morning at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Governor Gary Herbert took to the podium in a press conference to deliver what he coined a “Clean Air Challenge” for the state of Utah. The purpose?: In his own words, “so…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Breathless in Zion: Utah’s Battle for Clean Air is set to be a riveting documentary that will portray the complex political, topographical, environmental, and health issues regarding the horrendous air pollution problem enveloping the greater Salt Lake City area. In the film we will examine…
(EnviroNews Utah) – In this kickoff-interview emanating from the first local, state-based EnviroNews news bureau, EnviroNews Utah’s Monica Bellenger sits down one-on-one with Mayor Ralph Becker of Salt Lake City, who has been referred to by some people as “America’s Bike Friendliest Mayor”. The Mayor was eager to…