(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 – 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…
(EnviroNews Utah) – “DO NO HARM”: That is the essence of the Hippocratic Oath uttered by roughly 98% of all American medical students upon graduation, but at that point, little do many of them realize that a dirty and downright sinister corner of the greater medical complex is…
(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) – This documentation of an emergency bypass event at Silver Eagle oil refinery was taped and sent into EnviroNews Utah via the Community Watch. The large toxic burp was seen, heard, and smelled between 5:10 and 5:20 PM on August 19, 2013….
(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…
(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) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Rod Decker, Reporter for KUTV News in Utah is exposed in an attempt to lure panelists at the Kennecott/Rio Tinto press conference into admitting they want Kennecott Utah Copper to “shut down.” The panel of local experts, doctors, and environmentalists…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Michael Mielke of Post Carbon Salt Lake weighs in following the Rio Tinto press conference at the Salt Lake City Library, April 14, 2011. “This stuff kills”!
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City, Utah — Marion Klaus, Chair of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club 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 — Ivan Webber denounces the planned mine expansion of Kennecott Utah Copper at the Rio Tinto press conference April 14, 2011 at the Salt Lake City Library.