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- 2010
- March
- Mar. 9-15, 2010
Waste Management Joint Venture to Build Plasma Facility in Oregon
S4 Energy Solutions, LLC, 3 March 2010 917 words
Waste Management's joint venture S4 Energy Solutions, formed with InEnTec in 2009, announced plans to build a waste-to-fuel facility at its landfill in Arlington, Oregon...Read More »
OSHA Could Subject Waste Industry to Combustible Dust Rule
News Room, 9 March 2010 588 words
Waste industry groups are concerned that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking to expand its forthcoming combustible dust rule to cover waste and recycling activities, especially...Read More »
EPA Criticized Over Environmental Justice Methodology
News Room, 8 March 2010 280 words
The EPA is drawing criticism for its recently released "Draft Environmental Justice Methodology" for analyzing the potential impacts of its controversial definition of solid waste (DSW) rule on low-income...Read More »
US Ecology Posted Lower 4Q Profit on Sharply Lower Revenue
US Ecology, Inc., 4 March 2010 2617 words
US Ecology, Inc., formerly American Ecology Corp., said fourth-quarter sales and income fell by nearly half...Read More »
Idaho Reports Sharply Lower Hazardous Wastes in 2009
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, 2 March 2010 133 words
Perhaps as an indication of the economy, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reports a significant drop in hazardous waste generated in the state as well as those exported from other states...Read More »
WCA Waste Narrows 4Q Loss despite Revenue Decline
WCA Waste Corp., 4 March 2010 170 words
WCA Waste Corp. (Houston, TX) reported a net loss of $2.3 million on $46.2 million in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2009...Read More »
Veolia Environnement Profit up 44% Even with Slight Drop in Sales
Veolia Environnement, 5 March 2010 3449 words
Veolia Environnement (Paris, France) posted a 44% increase in net profit even as revenue dropped, as cost-cutting and asset divestitures helped the company weather the adverse economy...Read More »
City of St. Joseph Partners with KCP&L for Landfill Gas
Kansas City Power & Light, 9 March 2010 495 words
The city of St. Joseph, Missouri announced a partnership with Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) to develop a landfill gas-to-energy project at the city's 90-acre landfill...Read More »
- Mar. 2-8, 2010
Activists Show Coal Ash Pollution Worse than EPA Says to Push for Rule
Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Earthjustice, 24 February 2010 2506 words
Two environmental groups are calling attention to the urgent need for EPA to release its long-stalled rule to regulate coal waste by citing new data showing that coal ash is causing toxic water contamination...Read More »
WM Invests in Waste-to-Ethanol Venture Enerkem
News Room, 24 February 2010 300 words
Montreal-based Enerkem Inc. said it raised $51.5 million from a syndicate of investors that includes waste industry giant Waste Management, Inc...Read More »
Construction Unions Side against EPA Emissions Rules
News Room, 25 February 2010 170 words
Republicans in Congress opposed to the EPA's measures to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act have an unlikely ally in a top labor leader...Read More »
San Diego Tribe Proposes Landfill, Free of State Regulation
News Room, 27 February 2010 208 words
A Native American tribe in San Diego County, California hopes to build a 493-acre landfill on its reservation in the eastern county along the border with Mexico...Read More »
Clairvest Group Makes $35 Million Investment in Hudson Valley Waste Co.
Clairvest Group Inc., 1 March 2010 287 words
Canadian merchant bank Clairvest Group Inc. said it has made a $35.25 million investment in Hudson Valley Waste Holding, Inc., a regional waste company that collects, processes and recycles nonhazardous...Read More »
Recology Wins $38 Million Metro Portland Contract
Metro, 24 February 2010 743 words
Recology, formerly called Norcal Waste Systems, recently won a $38 million, seven-year contract to manage a transfer station for the Metro Regional Government of Portland, Oregon...Read More »
Advanced Disposal Buys C&D Recycler Adding to Tenn. Purchases
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc., 1 March 2010 175 words
Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL) recently purchased a construction and materials recycling facility near Nashville, Tenn...Read More »
Airlines Receive Poor Marks on Recycling Report Card
Green America, 18 February 2010 1121 words
A new report by environmental group Green America reveals that many of the larger commercial airlines have a long way to go when it comes to recycling the massive amounts of waste generated on passenger...Read More »
Casella Waste Systems Reported Fiscal 3Q Loss, Revenue Up
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 2 March 2010 421 words
Casella Waste Systems (Rutland, VT) reported a less-than-expected yet still wider loss in its fiscal third quarter...Read More »
Republic Services Prices $1.5 Billion Bond Offering
Republic Services, Inc., 1 March 2010 316 words
Republic Services, Inc. recently launched its $1.5 billion two-part debt sale that includes $850 million of 5% 10-year notes, and $650 million of 6.2% 30-year notes...Read More »
Clean Harbors 4Q Profits Down, Hurt by Eveready Acquisition
Clean Harbors, Inc., 24 February 2010 101 words
Clean Harbors, Inc. reported a lower than expected fourth-quarter profit resulting from lower utilization of its recently acquired Eveready assets...Read More »
New Plasma Waste-to-Energy Plant in New Orleans
News Room, 25 February 2010 531 words
A New Orleans-based startup company called Sun Energy Group LLC has begun construction of a waste-to-energy plant on formerly industrial land in the eastern part of the city that had been ravaged by Hurricane...Read More »
New Draft Jobs Bill Includes Energy Tax Extenders
News Room, 1 March 2010 107 words
Draft job-creation legislation being crafted by Senate democrats includes one-year extensions of several energy-related tax credits...Read More »
SPSA Plans Massive Layoffs to Stem Red Ink
News Room, 25 February 2010 134 words
According to an article in The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, the troubled Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA) in that part of Virginia expects to shed 249 jobs this year as it struggles to balance...Read More »
Avalon Holdings Appoints New CEO
Avalon Holdings Corporation, 1 March 2010 365 words
Warren, Ohio-based Avalon Holdings Corp., a regional waste services company, announced the appointment of Steven M. Berry as its new CEO effective March 1...Read More »
- February
- Feb. 23-Mar. 1, 2010
EPA's Final RFS Includes More Biofuels, Sparks Debate; Questionable Science
News Room, 18 February 2010 273 words
The EPA's just-issued final renewable fuel standard (RFS) attributes more greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits to many types of biofuels compared to its earlier proposed RFS that now allows biofuels such as corn...Read More »
EnergySolutions CEO Quits Abruptly
News Room, 19 February 2010 554 words
EnergySolutions Inc. CEO Steve Creamer abruptly resigned last week from the helm of the nuclear waste services company he helped build...Read More »
Covanta Holding: Modestly Better 4Q Profits amid Slight Decline in Revenue
Covanta Holding Corp., 22 February 2010 391 words
Covanta Holding Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings rose 3.6% as a small decrease in operating expenses offset a slight drop in revenue...Read More »
EPA Solid Waste Chief Announces Retirement
News Room, 22 February 2010 260 words
Matt Hale, EPA's top solid waste official, plans to retire effective March 31 after postponing his retirement several times in the past to work on the "many challenges" his agency faces in its Resource...Read More »
IESI-BFC Quarterly Profit Down on Costs Related to Acquisition
IESI-BFC Ltd., 23 February 2010 397 words
Canadian waste management company IESI-BFC Ltd., formerly BFI Canada, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on higher costs and forecast 2010 revenue below analysts' estimates...Read More »
Waste Services Reports Slight Loss on Higher Revenue
Waste Services, Inc., 23 February 2010 215 words
Waste Services Inc., with operations in the US and Canada, reported a slight fourth quarter loss of $119,000, essentially even with last year's loss of $10.5 million, or $0.23 per share, that included...Read More »
Delaware to Ban Yard Waste from Landfills
News Room, 18 February 2010 118 words
Regulators with Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) have ordered a ban on yard waste disposal at central Delaware's main landfill which completes a statewide move...Read More »
Sims Metal Earns Profit despite Big Drop in Sales
Sims Metal Management Ltd., 18 February 2010 463 words
Sims Metal Management Ltd., the world's largest recycler of scrap metal, swung to a profit in the first half without the burden of one-time charges included in last year's numbers and despite a 39% decline...Read More »
American Ecology Changes Its Name to US Ecology, Inc.
American Ecology Corporation, 22 February 2010 700 words
Hazardous waste services company American Ecology Corp. said it has changed its name to US Ecology Inc...Read More »
University of British Columbia to Employ 2-MW Biomass System
Nexterra Systems Corp., 15 February 2010 811 words
Biomass gasification company, Nexterra Systems Corp. said it will install and demonstrate a unique, 2-megawatt on-site biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) system developed in conjunction with...Read More »
- Feb. 16-22, 2010
Waste Management Beats Expectations for 4Q; Sees Improving Conditions
Waste Management, Inc., 16 February 2010 1042 words
Waste Management posted better-than-expected fourth quarter profit that increased 45 percent over last year's, helped by cost controls, a tax gain and a rebound in recycled commodity prices...Read More »
Republic Services Earns $35 Million Quarterly Profit on $2 Billion Sales
Republic Services, Inc., 12 February 2010 435 words
Republic Services reported a $35 million profit in the fourth quarter and said it continues to save more money and pay down debt faster than expected since its merger with Allied Waste in December 2008...Read More »
New York City's E-Waste Dispute May Rely on Sanitation Workers
News Room, 11 February 2010 247 words
Since a Manhattan judge suspended arguments over New York City's e-waste program, the focus has turned to a proposal that would assign city sanitation workers to collect from e-waste weighing more than...Read More »
British Airways Commits to Use Fuel from Waste
News Room, 16 February 2010 143 words
British Airways said it has signed a deal to purchase jet fuel to be produced from biomass by US-based Solena Group (Washington, DC) at a plant expected to be sited in London and operational by 2014...Read More »
Dover Corp. Combines Divisions into Environmental Solutions Group
Dover Corporation, 8 February 2010 373 words
Equipment maker Dover Corp. announced that it is consolidating three of its subsidiaries, Heil Environmental, Marathon Equipment Co...Read More »
TVA Expects Cleanup of Emory River to be done by May
News Room, 11 February 2010 163 words
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) told officials this week that the cleanup of ash spilled into the Emory River in East Tennessee will "probably" be finished by mid-May...Read More »
GreenHunter Renewable Sells 14 MW Biomass Plant for $6 Million
GreenHunter Energy, 12 February 2010 904 words
Multitrade Telogia LLC, a portfolio company of Leaf Clean Energy, has acquired a 14 MW wood waste-fired power plant in Telogia, Florida for $5.7 million from GreenHunter Renewable Power LLC, a unit of...Read More »
Baton Rouge and Partners Break Ground on $12 Million Landfill Gas Project
Siemens Industry, Inc., 3 February 2010 987 words
The City of Baton Rouge/Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana and its partners recently broke ground on a $12 million project to tap methane from the city-parish’s north landfill for sale to nearby plants...Read More »
SWACO Opens Green Energy Center for Vehicles it runs on Landfill Gas
Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, 11 February 2010 481 words
The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) reports that it now has 10 vehicles powered by methane from its landfill...Read More »
Landfill Energy Systems acquires Timberline Energy for $11.4 Million
Tortoise Capital Resources Corporation, 11 February 2010 340 words
Landfill Energy Systems, which develops and operates landfill gas to energy projects, has acquired Timberline Energy, a natural gas transportation company, from Mowood, LLC, a portfolio company of Tortoise...Read More »
Clean Harbors to Report 4Q Financial Results on Feb. 24
Clean Harbors, Inc., 11 February 2010 402 words
Clean Harbors, Inc. said it will announce fourth-quarter and year-end financial results during a conference call it will host on Wednesday, February 24 at 9 a.m...Read More »
Casella Waste to Report 3Q Financial Results March 3
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 10 February 2010 398 words
Casella Waste Systems said it will report 2010 third quarter financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, March 2 and host a conference call on the following day at 10 a.m...Read More »
EnergySolutions to Report 4Q Financial Results on Feb. 24
EnergySolutions, Inc., 10 February 2010 363 words
EnergySolutions, Inc. said it will announce fourth quarter and year-end financial results after the market closes on February 24 and host a conference call the following day at 10 a.m...Read More »
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