(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 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…
(EnviroNews Utah) – A little boy is jolted out of bed by a boom so loud it seems as though a massive bomb has been detonated near by. Well that little boy was the Founder of this very news organization. The town, Hooper, Utah. And it wasn’t a…
(EnviroNews Utah) – From the EnviroNews Utah archives, this incredible and simply angelic sunset was filmed as part of a project that had the time consuming goal of time-lapsing 100 breathtaking sunsets on Antelope Island in the downright awesome ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake. One might ask:…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On March 23rd, protestors of the now approved tar sands project in PR Springs, Utah delivered a row of small coffins to the Chevron Refinery in Salt Lake City, in response to the refineries recent expansion plans that would enable them to accommodate future tar…
(EnviroNews Utah) – It’s coming down to the wire on what some are calling the most critical environmental issue in Utah state history. Republican Governor Gary R. Herbert is poised to sign off on what has now been coined the Snake Valley Water Grab, which aims to ship…
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