Legal

Republic Services has reached a $7.9 million class settlement in a lawsuit alleging the “imprudent and disloyal sale of Rainbow Disposal Co. Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) assets.” ...

Jonathan Glynn, a former Baltimore County landfill employee, alleged that the acting landfill manager, James Dawson, “routinely” used racist language, “made derogatory racial jokes and slurs about black people” in 2012 and 2013 and moved him to a...

Arlington, VA –  The National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) joined other associations in a letter to House and Senate leaders urging Congress to pass a surface transportation reauthorization bill before the September 30, 2020 deadline. ...

It was crime on a grand scale. The punishment was equally so...

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold an oversight hearing today entitled, “Responding to the Challenges Facing Recycling in the United States.” ...

The first deadline laid out in California’s SB 1383 is looming: 50 percent diversion of organics from landfill by 2022; by 2025, Californians must divert 75 percent of their organics.  ...

Located on Lake Michigan at the northern edge of Illinois but part of the metropolitan area known as Chicagoland, the village of Winthrop Harbor lives up to its name big time.  It is quiet, serene North Point Marina, with some 1,500 slips, is the...