(EnviroNews Utah) – In a move that few constituents from District 23 could understand, their State Senator, Todd Weiler a Republican, first made a move to defend representatives of Stericycle medical waste incineration facility at an emotional town-hall when they ducked out of the meeting early during a…
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(EnviroNews Utah) – At a heated town-hall meeting focusing on the compliance and record-falsification issues surrounding Stericycle medical waste incinerator, Dr. Scott Hurst, anesthesiologist and member of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE), echoed the new bombshell findings of a recently released Harvard study that strongly…
(EnviroNews Utah) – According to documents on the Department of Environmental Quality website, Stericycle’s permit needs to be renewed by August 19, 2013. The company’s current permit expires on Feb. 19, 2014. Regg Olsen is listed as the contact at the Department of Air Quality (DAQ) in charge…
(EnviroNews Utah) – The most familiar face in Utah environmentalism addresses a crowd of concerned and even downright angry citizens at a heated town-hall meeting in North Salt Lake. The issue at hand: Stericycle Specialty Waste Solutions, Inc., which is one of the last remaining hazardous medical waste…
(EnviroNews Utah) – A handful of informed citizens in the Greater Salt Lake area had been waiting for this moment for years. That is, the opportunity to engage directly, in an open town hall format, with representatives from one of America’s well-guarded dirty little medical secrets. Stericycle Inc.,…
(EnviroNews Utah) – Following Stericycle’s admission last Thursday night where the company acknowledged it is allowed to accept and burn deadly and largely indestructible prions, protestors took to the streets outside one of the nation’s last standing medical waste incineration plants. Prions are the malformed proteins responsible for…
(EnviroNews Utah) – North Salt Lake City – In a shocking admission Thursday night at a heated town hall meeting, a VP from Stericycle has admitted that the company is allowed to accept and burn deadly and arguably indestructible brain-destroying prions at its North Salt Lake incineration facility…
(EnviroNews Utah) – With the North Salt Lake and Foxboro communities up in arms regarding compliance issues for Stericycle medical incinerator, protestors gathered outside the hazardous waste plant with a unified message of immediate and total shut down of the controversial business. Stericycle had been busted earlier this…
(EnviroNews Utah) – EDITOR’S NOTE: When originally released, this documentary filmed was titled, “Families Camp Out in Protest to Save the Tavaputs Plateau from America’s First Approved Commercial Tar Sands Mine.” The transcript reads as follows: Tar sands, oil sands, asphalt, and bituminous sands. These names all represent…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On the weekend of June 21, 2013, families gathered together at the PR Springs area to learn about tar sands as part of the educational campout organized by Utah Tar Sands Resistance. Children were able to see what leaking tar looked and smelled like and…
(EnviroNews Utah) – At an outing on the majestic Tavaputs Plateau in Utah where families with children had congregated in protest of America’s first approved commercial tar sands mine, Shad Engkilterra, reporter for local EnviroNews Utah gave his account of his visit to the old and abandoned Leonard…
(EnviroNews Alaska) – There are still a few places left on our now sadly tattered planet — totally remote and wild — where the nature and wildlife displays are so amazing that we at times prefer not to disclose the location, so as NOT to attract any more…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – In follow up fashion to our first three episodes with this mysterious oilman in black, the sitting North American oil and gas CEO of over 20 years speaks to the incredible dangers and health hazards encountered by your common oil-patch worker everyday.
(EnviroNews Utah) – In light of mounting concern over air pollution and a distressed climate as we soared past 400 parts per million Co2 in the atmosphere last month, people are asking more and more just what they can do to take the climate bull by the horns…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Duchesne, Utah — [Editor’s Note: This piece formerly had a sub-header. The title was: How Would You Feel about an Oil Drill Rig in Your Backyard? Helpless Residents of Utah’s Duchesne County Are about to Find out Just How It Feels] — The transcript is as follows: One…
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