(EnviroNews World News) — Well, it’s happened again — this time in the Sooner State of Oklahoma. It would appear that big oil with its limitless financial lobby power is afraid — shaking in its boots at the prospect of local cities and municipalities saying “hell no” to…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — Friends of Animals (FoA), the non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, announced on May 19, 2015, that they had filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compelling the agency to rescind its registration of the sterility-inducing pesticide porcine zona…
(EnviroNews World News) — A medical waste incinerator has been bombing communities near Bloemfontein with emergency bypass smoke for years reports All Africa, an african online news paper and agregator. According to the report, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) investigated the facility after residents complained that…
(EnviroNews Washington) — Morton, Washington — American medical waste giant Stericycle has been slapped with a $72,000 fine by the Washington State Department of Ecology for repeated violations at a facility located at 830 Westlake Ave, Morton, Washington. The announcement came on June 1, via a Department of…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) — North Salt Lake City, Utah — The following transcript is extracted from the EnviroNews USA full feature documentary Medical Waste Madness — ‘The Devil’s Work’: The Hippocratic Oath is a pledge that over 98% of medical students recite on graduation day. Their sacred…
(EnviroNews World News) — Annapolis, Maryland — “Through October 2017, the Maryland Department of Environment will be prohibited from issuing permits to allow drillers to frack for natural gas within the state, part of which sits atop the Marcellus Shale.” That was how Grist reported it when Maryland…
(EnviroNews World News) A petition titled Stop Animal Testing by Johnson & Johnson has been floating around the internet. The petition is authored by Olivia Nestro. It is not announced on the petition page how many people have signed on so far. Johnson & Johnson has taken heat…
(EnviroNews World News) — Denton, Texas — Three were arrested Monday, and another three today as protestors chained themselves to the entrance of fracking wells near Denton. The city is also known for being the birthplace of modern-day fracking — but earlier this year, citizens of that town…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington D.C. — The Obama Administration has finally done it. They have approved an even bigger carbon bomb than what would be created by the bitumen that would flow through the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline should it be ultimately approved. More Powder River Basin…
(EnviroNews World News) — A new study conducted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has found that rivers, lakes and streams around the state are littered with unregulated chemicals. The substances detected include myriad hormone disrupting chemicals — mostly from pharmaceutical drugs and personal care products. By…
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