Waste Management News

Several streets were shut down Tuesday morning in West Shreveport because of a hazardous material leak.

Waste Connections is scheduled to release its first-quarter financial results after the close of the stock market on April 20.

Angry residents and lawmakers of Gallatin County are blaming the Department of Environmental Quality and the Martz Administration for allowing the Holcim Trident Cement Kiln to burn slag.

The state Environmental Quality Board would surrender its power to set water standards to the Department of Environmental Protection under legislation sent to Gov.

Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. is receiving an extension for its $25 million asset-based line of credit through May 2008.

Representatives from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality were in Veribest to present one of the State's highest water awards.

Theresa Avenue resident Becky Schofield has not used the Route 117 transfer station since the city started charging residents to dump there nearly a year ago.

N-Viro International Corp. saw a much-improved bottom line last year due to cost-cutting measures and a successful private stock placement.

Clark County is dropping attempts to fine the region's main trash hauler more than 46,000 dollars in a complaint about trash dumped on the Las Vegas Strip during clean-up last New Year's Eve.

"It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it." That saying has been applied to many things, with many different connotations over the years.

THE GOVERNMENT is taking steps to establish a civilian body to oversee the Jamaica Constabulary Force .

The cost of operating a transfer station to handle the county's waste stream will be discussed by members of the Resource Authority of Sumner County at 5 p.m. today.

Bechtel National has notified 92 union craft workers, mostly pipefitters, that they're being laid off at the $5.8-billion vitrification plant under construction at Hanford.

Proposals to spur more housing by changing the 1970-era California Environmental Quality Act --- - AB648, By Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento: Makes cities considering development projects subject to CEQA ...

An affordable housing project -- something almost as rare to the region as last winter's snow -- may receive the blessings from the Ponderay City Council Monday night when it considers granting a zoning change ...

The city of Paris is seeking bids from waste management companies interested in handling not only residential trash pickup, but commercial and industrial as well.

The public comment period on a draft assessment for improving water quality at Bear River Basin and Malad River Sub-basin has been extended through 5 p.m. on May 2, according to a press release from the ...

Bechtel National has notified 92 union craft workers, mostly pipefitters, that they are being laid off at the $5.8 billion vitrification plant under construction at Hanford.

FAIRFIELD - County planning commissioners could decide on May 5 whether to allow Potrero Hills Landfill to expand.

NPT PHOTO BY KEVIN FLINT Cocke County received its annual Solid Waste Reduction Grant Thursday from the State of Tennessee in the amount of $168,000. Cocke County Mayor Iliff McMahan, Jr.

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Sheikh Ibrahim C. Quaye has been accused of refusing to implement a waste management programme, Community Waste Pre-Collection Scheme, for fear that his brother, who owns ...

Attorney General Mike Cox, on behalf of the Department of Environmental Quality, filed a complaint on March 31, in the Wexford County Circuit Court asking the court to order AAR Mobility Systems to comply with ...

Just down the street from where the Transpark is being built, on Fred Madison Road.

Debbie Nelson was named Logan County's new solid waste coordinator last Tuesday with a unanimous vote from Fiscal Court.

Recycle America buys 2 Colorado facilities from Tri-R Recycling March 28 -- Recycle America Alliance LLC said March 28 that it has completed the acquisition of the Colorado assets of Tri-R Recycling.

If the winner in the approval of a new landfill is the public schools, the loser is East Carbon.

MADISONVILLE, Ky. - Hopkins County residents are mounting a full-court press in an attempt to block a Wickliffe, Ky., company's application for a state permit to dump sewage sludge from Nashville, Tenn., at a ...

There has not been a solid waste disposal contract in Duplin County for some time now, and ,up until Wednesday, the county manager had been issued a directive by the commissioners to continue negotiations with ...

As much as 500 tons of trash a day are likely to soon be hauled to a proposed trash transfer station on Concord Road south of Brady Lane.

Bigger landfills okayed by Bob Hague Larger landfills gained approval Wednesday, from the state Natural Resources Board.

Metal Management Inc. is partnering with Donjon Marine Inc. to form a joint venture to conduct stevedoring and marine services on the Hudson River next to the Port Albany Terminal in New York.

Washington Group International Inc., an engineering and construction company, is leading a team that was awarded a $1.9 billion contract over seven years to clean up a Washington state site for the U.S. Energy ...