Houston -- Waste Management Inc. has announced it will donate 85,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent emission credits to Houston, which the company says will more than offset the greenhouse gas impact of the Super Bowl. The CO2...

Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government can force states to follow national pollution control measures rather than less restrictive state-mandated regulations, new sources report. Therefore, the U.S...

Miami -- BFI Waste Systems of North America has accused All Service Refuse of mailing cancellation letters to BFI commercial customers in the Miami-Dade County area. All Service Refuse is owned by Ft. Lauderdale-based Republic Waste Services and...

Chicago -- A group of residents in the Chicago area are suing Waste Management of Illinois, Groot Recycling and Waste, Onyx Waste Services, Homewood Disposal Service and Allied Waste Services (including BFI) over October 2003's 10-day garbage...

Portland, Ore. – The recycling rate for rigid plastic containers dropped in 2002 to 26.2 percent from approximately 31 percent in 2001, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reports, which barely meets the state requirement of 25...

WITH ONLY A few months under his belt as the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Michael Leavitt has said he will use a collaborative approach in his new position — to work with industry rather than simply police it. Yet...

LANDFILL GAS (LFG) contaminants, at times, have cast a cloud over engine maintenance and emissions in the landfill gas energy (LFGE) industry. Because fuel quality changes from landfill to landfill, processes to treat the contaminants have not...

IN ANOTHER ATTEMPT to keep our northern neighbor's trash in its own backyard, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to enforce an agreement that requires Canada to notify the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Environmental Protection...

ON NOV. 18, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Bethesda, Md., published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), requesting public comment on...

To keep its Atlanta landfill open, Waste Management of Georgia has filed a Petition for Judicial Review with the Cobb County Superior Court. The company also moved to stay the judge's ruling to continue landfill operations during the judicial...