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- 2009
- July
- Jul. 8-14, 2009
Covanta Moves to Consolidate Market; Purchases Waste-to-Energy Assets from Veolia
Covanta Holding Corporation, 6 July 2009 1592 words
Covanta Holding Corp. said it had reached an agreement with Veolia Environmental Services (ES) North America whereby Covanta will acquire assets amounting to most of Veolia ES's waste-to-energy business...Read More »
Energy-Intensive Sectors Want More Protection in Senate Climate Bill
News Room, 7 July 2009 208 words
As debate over the Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill moves into the Senate, energy-intensive industries are pushing for a major debate over the need for more compensation in the event that China, India,...Read More »
SAIC to Buy R.W. Beck
Science Applications International Corp., 6 July 2009 755 words
San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is acquiring Seattle-based R. W. Beck Group, Inc., including Beck Disaster Recovery, Inc...Read More »
Waste Management Opens Advanced Recycling Facilities in Oregon, California
Waste Management, Inc., 30 June 2009 1279 words
Waste Management, Inc. announced that it has opened two new state-of-the-art recycling facilities for construction and demolition (C&D) waste, one in Hillsboro, OR, and another in El Cajon, CA. The company...Read More »
Coal Ash Spilled at TVA Plant in Tenn. Will be Rail-Hauled to Alabama
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2 July 2009 729 words
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has approved a plan to transfer more than half of the coal ash that spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston, TN, power plant last...Read More »
Ameresco Opens New Landfill Gas to Energy Project in Half Moon Bay, CA
Ameresco, Inc., 1 July 2009 1127 words
Republic Services' Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay, CA has begun operating an 11.4 megawatt landfill gas to energy project constructed by Ameresco, Inc...Read More »
Tetra Tech Acquires Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates
Tetra Tech, Inc., 30 June 2009 331 words
Tetra Tech, Inc. has acquired Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates (BAS) , a consulting and engineering firm specializing in landfill design, leachate and hazardous waste management, energy recovery, and groundwater...Read More »
Casella Sells $180 Million in Five-Year Notes
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 1 July 2009 815 words
Casella Waste Systems Inc sold $180 million of five-year senior secured notes in the 144A private placement market...Read More »
Tomra Pacific to Open New Recycling Center In San Francisco
Tomra of North America, 7 July 2009 523 words
Tomra of North America plans to open a beverage container recycling center in San Francisco, CA capable of handling 5 million containers per month...Read More »
Startech Rejects $15 Million Tender Offer from Swiss Company
Startech Environmental Corp., 7 July 2009 501 words
Startech Environmental Corp., a Wilton, CT-based developer of a plasma-based technology for treating and recycling hazardous wastes, has rejected a tender offer from Geneva-based Friendly LRL Holdings...Read More »
Waste Connections to Report Second Quarter Results on July 21
Waste Connections, Inc., 6 July 2009 343 words
Waste Connections, Inc. said it will report second quarter financial results after the close of the stock market on July 21 and host an investor conference call related to the release the following day...Read More »
Covanta Holding Corp. to Report Second Quarter Results on July 22
Covanta Holding Corporation, 6 July 2009 316 words
Covanta Holding Corp. said it will announce second quarter financial results at the close of the market on Wednesday, July 22...Read More »
Waste Services to Release Second Quarter Earnings on July 21
Waste Services, Inc., 7 July 2009 226 words
Waste Services, Inc. said it will release second quarter financial results after the close of markets on Tuesday, July 21 and hold a conference call the following day at 9:30 a.m...Read More »
- June
- Jun. 30-Jul. 6, 2009
EPA Gives California Power to Set its Own Emissions Standards
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 30 June 2009 478 words
The US EPA said it has granted California the right to enforce its own emissions standards from cars and light trucks; it is the first state allowed to do so...Read More »
Intense Lobbying Behind Passage of Climate Change Bill in House
News Room, 26 June 2009 535 words
For many industries, particularly the energy sector, the stakes are huge in the landmark climate and energy bill that recently passed in the House of Representatives this week...Read More »
EPA to Hold Public Meeting on Definition of Solid Waste
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 29 June 2009 412 words
The US EPA will hold a public meeting on possible revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste (DSW) rule on June 30 in order for stakeholders and members of the public to voice their opinions on the rule...Read More »
Casella Waste Secures New Debt
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 24 June 2009 796 words
Casella Waste Systems said it secured a $100 million term loan and $205 million in senior secured second lien notes due 2014...Read More »
Waste Management Discusses World's Largest Landfill Gas to Fuel Plant
Waste Management, Inc., 29 June 2009 211 words
As start-up on the world's largest plant to convert landfill gas into clean vehicle fuel nears completion, joint venture partners Linde North America and Waste Management have begun to share details of...Read More »
Interstate Waste and PPL Open Large Landfill Gas Project in Pennsylvania
Interstate Waste Services, 25 June 2009 728 words
Interstate Waste Services announced that it has begun operating a new landfill gas-to-energy project located at its 684 acre Cumberland County Landfill in Shippensburg, PA. It is estimated that the 6.4...Read More »
EPA Makes Public the Location of 44 Most Hazardous Coal Ash Sites
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 29 June 2009 388 words
The US EPA made public a list of the 44 potentially most hazardous coal ash sites located in 26 communities in 10 states where storage ponds pose a similar threat to the environment as one that spilled...Read More »
Waste Management Opens Ultra-Green Recycling Facility
Waste Management of Oregon, 30 June 2009 608 words
Waste Management of Oregon has just opened a $10 million expansive new ultra-green recycling facility near Hillsboro, OR. The 65,000-square-foot facility will accept construction and demolition castoffs...Read More »
Tetra Tech buys Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates
Tetra Tech, Inc., 30 June 2009 332 words
Engineering firm Tetra Tech Inc. said it has acquired Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates, a Southern California-based consulting and engineering firm...Read More »
Waste Management to Announce Second Quarter Earnings on July 30
Waste Management, Inc., 25 June 2009 522 words
Waste Management said it will release second quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, July 30 and will host an investor conference call later that morning at 10 a.m...Read More »
- Jun. 23-29, 2009
Toronto Garbage Collectors and Other Workers on Strike
News Room, 22 June 2009 175 words
City of Toronto, ON garbage collectors, daycare workers and other municipal employees recently went on strike in a contract dispute that could lead to a prolonged shutdown of important services in Canada's...Read More »
S&P Optimistic About Waste Industry Outlook
News Room, 22 June 2009 207 words
The rating agency Standard & Poor's, a division of McGraw-Hill, remains bullish about the waste management industry given the recession-resistant nature of the business and its ability to generate strong...Read More »
Greenstar Opens San Antonio Recycling Plant; Largest in Texas
Greenstar North America, 17 June 2009 710 words
Greenstar North America, a division of NTR plc, has opened what it claims to be the largest recycling plant in Texas in San Antonio...Read More »
Landfill Methane to Fuel Tulsa Cement Plant
News Room, 20 June 2009 149 words
Officials from Lafarge Corp. and Waste Management last week dedicated an 8,000 pipeline that will bring methane from WM's Quarry Landfill to Lafarge's Cement Plant in Tulsa, OK. Lafarge plans to use at...Read More »
$160 Million Biomass-to-Energy Plant to Begin Operations
EnerTech Environmental, Inc., 22 June 2009 561 words
This week Atlanta-based EnerTech Environmental Inc. hosted a tour of its new $160 million biomass-to-fuel plant in Rialto, CA. The plant which has been six years in the making is designed to process more...Read More »
Bruce Parker Challenges Outdated Perceptions of Waste Industry
National Solid Wastes Management Association, 19 June 2009 586 words
In a speech before the Society of Government Economists in Washington, NSWMA president and CEO Bruce J. Parker challenged outdated perceptions of today's modern waste industry...Read More »
Waste Management Opens State-of-the-Art Detroit Recycling Center
Waste Management of Michigan, 17 June 2009 741 words
Waste Management announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art single stream recycling center in Detroit, MI. The company invested $2 million in the 63,000 square foot facility that will manage 150 tons...Read More »
Oakleaf Names New President; Barnes Becomes Chairman
OAKLEAF, 18 June 2009 734 words
Oakleaf Waste is boosting its management ranks with the appointment of Steve Preston as President and eventually CEO later this year, as current CEO Jim Barnes transitions to his new role Chairman of the...Read More »
Republic Services to Announce Second Quarter Earnings on July 30
Republic Services, Inc., 23 June 2009 172 words
Republic Services said it will release second quarter earnings during an investor conference call on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 8:00 a.m...Read More »
- Jun. 16-22, 2009
Battle Brewing Over Landfill Methane Under Climate Bill
News Room, 12 June 2009 259 words
The exclusion of landfill methane projects from qualifying for offset credits under the Waxman-Markey Climate bill perplexes many in the industry and is shaping up to be a major battleground...Read More »
Casella Waste Sees Fourth Quarter Loss on Charges amid Less Revenue
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 15 June 2009 675 words
Casella Waste Systems said that fourth quarter revenue dropped by 16% on "significant declines in commodity pricing and lower solid waste volumes in more economically sensitive markets," according to Chief...Read More »
California "Governator" Takes Aim at Waste Board
News Room, 15 June 2009 195 words
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger again wants to eliminate the state's Integrated Waste management Board (CIWMB) as part of his campaign to address the state's $24.3 billion deficit...Read More »
EPA Seeks 30% 'Disinvestments' to Fund Jackson's Priorities
News Room, 12 June 2009 130 words
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has ordered program offices to draft options for "disinvesting" between 10 and 30 percent of their current budgets in fiscal year 2011, for redeploying those savings in a...Read More »
San Francisco Passes Draconian Recycling Bill
City of San Francisco, 9 June 2009 670 words
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a mandatory composting law that is believed to be the strictest such ordinance in the nation...Read More »
Boxer Complains EPA Will Not Reveal Most Hazardous Coal Ash Sites
News Room, 12 June 2009 168 words
Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman US Sen. Barbara Boxer complained at a recent press conference that the Department of Homeland Security will not allow her to discuss the location of 44...Read More »
Activists' Report Criticizes Waste Incineration as 'Just Blowing Smoke'
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, 15 June 2009 829 words
The latest salvo in the highly charged debate over whether waste-to-energy qualify as a renewable energy source under the pending Climate Change bill is a report by a group of environmental activists that...Read More »
California AG Sues Target Corp. Over Illegal Disposal of Hazardous Waste
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., 15 June 2009 1287 words
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and local officials are suing Target Corp., accusing the large retailer of dumping hazardous waste in landfills around the state...Read More »
Waste Management to Deploy Solar-Powered Trash Compactors
Waste Management, Inc., 12 June 2009 678 words
Waste Management Inc. plans to deploy solar-powered trash compactors, under an exclusive agreement with BigBelly Solar, which produces them...Read More »
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