Waste Management News

Government officials clarified yesterday that grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to CNMI agencies were not suspended, and that Coastal Resources Management administrator Rita Chong-Dela Cruz resigned, not terminated.

Industrial Services of America , Louisville, Ky., has announced that Brian Donaghy has resigned his position as the company's president and chief operating officer, as well as any other positions he holds with the company, including principal executive officer.

Advanced Disposal , an integrated environmental services company based in Batavia, has hired Matt Neely as Midwest region landfill manager.

After days without water around 250 homes in Vinton are under a boil notice from the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality.

   The Waste Not of Yamhill County/Stop the Dump Coalition has requested from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) an administrative hearing on its recent approval of a 40-foot-tall earthen berm at Riverbend Landfill.    In a release from the coalition, group President Ilsa Perse noted that the contested case hearing is normally granted in such cases only to applicants whose permit requests have been denied by DEQ.

The cleanup process got underway Tuesday morning after a tank sitting on TJ Campbell Construction Company's land sprung a leak and sent gallons of a tar-like sludge onto a neighbor's property.

Looking for a new lawnmower? The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, along with OSU/OKC and Black and Decker are willing to give you $100 towards the purchase of a new electric mower.

Underground smoldering at the Bridgeton Landfill has created a foul odor so strong that Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster sued the landfill owner, Republic Services Inc. Bridgeton Landfill is part of the larger West Lake Landfill.

BILOXI - The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality , through its Beach Monitoring Program, has issued a precautionary beach closure.

Monday, the judge upheld an appeal of Rosemont's aquifer protection permit issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

Baxter Day Service Center is slated to add a new materials conveyor and baler to help handle an increasing load of recyclable materials.

Burgmeier's Hauling has bought all the residential and the "rearload" commercial container accounts in Blair County from Waste Management, effective July 1. Burgmeier's will add 2,500 customers through the purchase, bringing its total to 25,500 customers in six Pennsylvania counties, western Maryland and eastern West Virginia, according to company ... (more)

Ascension Parish officials on Monday began answering questions and soliciting public comments about a proposed sewer system that would serve residents on the parish's east bank of the Mississippi River.

Neighbors in Broken Arrow are finally seeing debris removed from their streets after a tornado ripped through their area in May. Wagoner County told FOX23 it took so long to get the debris removal started because the county had to get a permit approved by the Department of Environmental Quality.

The town government plans to pay about 7 percent more for water, sewer and related services in the upcoming fiscal year to a contractor that has provided the services for years.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by analysts at TheStreet in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

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Looking for a way to increase residential waste recycling and reduce recycling litter in neighborhoods, the city wants to initiate a two-year pilot program in which selected households would be asked to place their recyclables in clear plastic bags instead of bins.

Every day, Joe Eori receives calls from about 10 potential customers who would like his Rostraver company, Big's Sanitation, to add their homes or businesses to its garbage collection routes.

For the first time in a generation, the town's operating budget is being put together without the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid yearly by Waste Management Inc. Despite the nearly $600,000 less in dump revenue, the Finance Committee says it was able to come up with a budget proposal for next week's town meeting that includes a recommended 3 ... (more)