(EnviroNews World News) — Linden, New Jersey — The Honorable Superior Court Judge Michael Hogan said he will make a decision “Monday or Tuesday” on whether or not he will allow seven environmental groups and state Democratic lawmakers to intervene in a settlement proposed between Exxon Mobil Corp…
(EnviroNews World News) — Washington, DC — It seems like we, at EnviroNews, have been reporting on this type of thing all year. That is, sketchy environmental riders being attached to totally unrelated appropriations bills in backdoor efforts to kill environmental and wildlife protections. Yes, this year’s spending…
(EnviroNews World News) — Zooplankton have been captured on film feasting on plastic microbeads for the first time New Scientist magazine has reported. The entire three hour event took place inside a single drop of water and was taped under the microscope by Five Films. The unique footage…
(EnviroNews World News) — While it’s certainly debatable as to what the smartest animals in the world are, it may be less disputable when attempting to zero in on the world’s smartest bird. While conducting research for this article, we were not surprised to find dozens upon dozens…
(EnviroNews World News) — Maryville, Tennessee — A community is still reeling after a train derailment and subsequent oil car explosion and toxic fire in Maryville, Tennessee, in the early morning hours on July 2, 2015. Over 5,000 people were evacuated overnight spanning a two mile radius. As…
(EnviroNews World News) — The male gender will go to some pretty great lengths to attract a suitable female companion, but few in the wild world of nature can put on a show like Australia’s flamboyant lyrebird. A member of the Menuridae family, there are two distinct species…
(EnviroNews World News) — Just when you think they can’t say anything more outrageous over at Fox “News,” host Greg Gutfeld blows your mind again. That’s what happened to myriad genres of viewers, both catholic and otherwise, follow Gutfeld’s comments in a roundtable on the talk-show The Five….
(EnviroNews World News) — Even as wildlife species are disappearing off the face of the planet forever at an absolutely horrifying rate, scientists are still discovering new ones more often than you might think. One of the most recent additions to the list of new species is Kiwa…
(EnviroNews World News) — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan — A mere 12 miles from the full-blown triple nuclear reactor “melt-through” at Fukushima Daiichi on the eastern coast of Japan, sits a bafflingly huge, 620-foot-tall, 1,500-ton bladed beast — floating on a 5,000 ton platform in the water. The world’s…
(EnviroNews World News) — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Historically speaking, Oklahoma used to be a place where almost no palpable earthquakes happened at all — but hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking” has changed all that now. Between the dates June 17 and June 24, 2015, Oklahoma was jolted by…
(EnviroNews World News) — Paris, France — “Someone in France accidentally ate a fluorescent lamb with jellyfish DNA,” The Verge has reported. The animal in question named Rubis, was the offspring of a lamb named Emeraude — and both were part of a science-fiction-like experiment called “Green Sheep”…
(EnviroNews World News) — Vancouver, BC — In the wake of yesterday’s protest wherein Audrey Seigl, a Native American First Nations activist, put her body in front of the 300-foot-tall “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig with only a feather and a drum, Greenpeace Canada’s “Save the Arctic”…
(EnviroNews World News) — British Columbia — On June 17, 2015, Native American First Nations Greenpeace activist Audrey Seigl stood on an inflatable boat, smack-dab in the path of Shell Oil’s behemoth, 300-foot-tall, “Polar Pioneer” deep ocean drill rig — with nothing but a round-drum and a feather…
(EnviroNews World News) — On June 15, 2015 headlines around the world rang of Rachael Dozal — the recently racially outed caucasian leader of the Spokane NAACP. Turn on any mainstream media new channel today and you’re going to be listening to an ethical debate surrounding the now…
(EnviroNews World News) — A petition was started by Ric O’Barry of the group Dolphin Project with the goal of pressuring Vladimir Putin to put an end to the, at times, deadly capturing of Orca Whales. As of June 15, 2015, the petition has 4,243 signatures and maintains…
(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) – 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 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 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) — 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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