(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 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) — 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) — 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) — 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…
(EnviroNews World News) — The organization Pollinator Partnership is at it again. What’s that? Doing its best to save another species in peril of course. The group announced in a press release on May 28, 2015, its launch of the “Monarch Wings Across Ohio” campaign — a movement…
(EnviroNews World News) — On April 25, 2015 drone footage surfaced from Indonesia that displayed the scope of deforestation for palm oil in the country. The video, posted on user Ben Cushing’s YouTube Account account captures flying footage over PT Adau Agro Kalbar plantation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia,…
(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) — The Senate has now voted to move the USA Freedom Act of 2015 forward for a final vote — this, after much haggling in the Senate including Rand Paul speaking on the floor until the cows came home in an effort to get his…
(EnviroNews World News) — Princeton, New Jersey — Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), reported a breakthrough in fusion energy science on June 1, 2015, with the simulation of “plasmoids” in a tokamak-like environment. It was also…
(EnviroNews World News) At a meeting of the Norweigian parliament’s finance committee on May 27, 2015 members voted to pull the country’s money out of coal investments, citing climate change as the driving factor. The “sovereign wealth fund,” or oil fund as it is commonly known is a…
(EnviroNews World News) — In a bombshell announcement, newly elected Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has followed Bermuda’s lead in banning the import, sale or deployment of glyphosate containing products in his country. Discovered by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970, glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide that…
(EnviroNews World News) — In response to myriad horrifying reports showcasing a plummeting of bee populations worldwide, legendary company Burt’s Bees has stepped up to the plate in a grassroots effort to mitigate the damage and improve the overall situation. According to Pollinator Partnership, bees can be thanked…
(EnviroNews World News) — Following an intense occupation of a university management building that lasted nearly two weeks, Eidinburgh University finally relented under the pressure and announced on May 26, 2015 it would be pulling its money out of the dirtiest of dirty fossil fuels. The announcement was…
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(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…
(EnviroNews Utah) – We’ve been seeing a lot of this sort of thing lately and concerned citizens have been sending us clips almost on a weekly basis. What’s that you might ask? Huge burn-offs coming from atop oil and gas refining plants, and for some “strange” reason, it…
(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) – Well, Big West Oil Refinery in North Salt Lake is at it again. What’s that you ask? Only pumping off large flares with accompanying funky black smoke. This episode was sent into EnviroNews Utah by two local citizen journalists who saw…
(EnviroNews Utah) – On Thursday February 28th, Holly Refinery was observed with a huge flare atop one of their stacks that started at approximately 9 PM and persisted for at least 4 hours. This is the same Holly Refinery that has recently applied for an expansion permit for…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – In our extended coverage with this enigmatic and lifelong oilman and “downhole” expert, we explore the topic of quart by quart oil spills into the environment. The fossil fuel CEO, who in his own words said he wanted to “take the opportunity to…
(EnviroNews Utah via Community Watch Blog) – Holly Frontier aka Holly Refinery has come under scrutiny as of late — The reason: the company’s proposed operational and pollution expansion. Many local observers claim that Holly has consistently been the most irresponsible operator on “Refinery Row” in South Davis…
(EnviroNews DC News Bureau) – From deep within the frozen heart of oil and gas turf, we bring you a story so sensitive that even our reporter remains anonymous, at least for now. In this exclusive report we listen to the words of a lifelong oil industry worker…
(EnviroNews Utah) — Salt Lake City — Geneva Steel is highlighted for its link to a 100% increase in pulmonary/cardiovascular hospitalization rates in Utah County during the 5 year period after it opened by Dr. Howie Garber, and emergency room physician.
(EnviroNews Utah) – In a press conference of unparalleled environmental magnitude on Capitol Hill yesterday, a group of prominent physicians including former Utah Medical Association President Cris Cowley took the podium in front of local news media in what they deemed as an air pollution “public health emergency”….
(EnviroNews Utah) — Dr. Brent Muhlestein of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE) discusses the results of a UPHE study that reveals that just a small increase in air pollution can have a significant increase in heart attack.
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(EnviroNews Utah) – Although Utah’s infamous “RED AIR DAY” warning signs have been mysteriously out of commission through one of the most hazardous air pollution streaks in modern history, Utah’s citizens are no strangers to what is asked of them when the pollution get’s bad. Everyone knows that…
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