KANSAS CITY, Kansas — November 19, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently sampling soil and water from private wells at residences in Camden County, Mo. The samples are being screened for the presence of lead and other…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — November 18, 2008 — Four Arizona companies that voluntarily disclosed and corrected environmental violations have seen penalties waived by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It’s the result of an EPA policy that has been successful in…
Allied Waste Industries, Inc. recorded a liability of about US$172.5 million for environmental matters as of Sept. 30, 2008, compared with US$189.6 million as of Dec. 31, 2007.
The Company has been named a potentially responsible party at a number of…
Allied Waste Industries, Inc. is facing a suit served by the San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office, Environmental Prosecutions Unit (the District Attorney), on Oct. 1, 2008, for alleged violations of the California Business and Professional Code regarding the operation of…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — November 18, 2008 Fifteen California companies that voluntarily disclosed and corrected environmental violations have seen penalties waived by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It’s the result of an EPA policy that has been successful in getting…
Allied Waste Industries, Inc.’s subsidiary, Allied Waste Sycamore Landfill, LLC (Sycamore Landfill), is engaged in a dispute with the State of West Virginia regarding certain environmental matters at the subsidiary’s landfill.
On July 10, 2008, the State of West Virginia Department…
Waste Connections, Inc. continues to face a citizens group’s suit filed against the Company over a municipal solid waste landfill in Harper County, Kans.
According to the Company’s latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,…
Waste Connections, Inc., as of Sept. 30, 2008, had accrued US$21.3 million for capping, closure and post-closure maintenance costs for landfill sites that the Company owns or operates.
The Company said in its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that its…
Waste Connections, Inc., at Sept. 30, 2008, had US$9.52 million of capitalized expenditures related to landfill development project in Chaparral, N.M.
The Company’s subsidiary, High Desert Solid Waste Facility, Inc. (formerly known as Rhino Solid Waste, Inc.), owns undeveloped property in…
PHILADELPHIA — November 13, 2008 — The Environmental Protection Agency has settled hazardous waste violations at a Manassas, Va. facility with BAE Systems IESL, Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Md.., leases space at its Manassas,…