Waste Management News

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is investigating the source of a gasoline leak that contaminated a small tributary of Carvins Creek in Roanoke County.

A new report says that recycling rates remained steady in Virginia last year. The annual report by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality logs recycling rates of 324 cities, counties and towns and some businesses.

Warren Buffett nearly doubled his holdings of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the quarter ended Sept.

The state environmental office Wednesday denied a request to repeal a ban on the discharge of treated wastewater into the Highland Lakes, which serve as the prime recreation and water supply reservoirs in Central Texas.

Today, Derby Mayor Dion Avello and Waste Connections Inc. Division Vice President Jim Spencer announced that the City and the waste and recycling hauler have joined forces with RecycleBankA to dramatically increase household recycling volumes with a new rewards-for-recycling program.

State environmental officials will consider a proposal this week to allow millions of gallons of treated sewage to be dumped into several popular central Texas lakes, angering some waterfront property owners, elected officials and environmentalists.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality says a demolition contractor who has done a lot of reconstruction work after Hurricane Katrina for the Army Corps of Engineers was ordered Tuesday to pay $40,000 in fines for illegal dumping in eastern New Orleans.

Warren Buffetta s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed stakes in oil producer Exxon Mobil Corp., candy maker Nestle SA, trash hauler Republic Services Inc.

Waste Management Inc. on Thursday issued $600 million in senior notes due 2039, according to Informa Global Markets.

McGraw-Hill Construction, based in New York City, has released a new report titled 'Sustainable Construction Waste Management: Creating Value in the Built Environment,' which it says reveals that 61 percent of contractors rate waste management plans as the second most important aspect of green building, only behind energy efficiency.

Consolidated Envirowaste Industries Inc. , a Vancouver-based processor of wood and other organic wastes, says it has struck a deal that will see controllling shareholders James Darby and Douglas Halward to take the company private.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on Friday gave the city of Three Rivers an ultimatum -- chlorinate your water, or else.

Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Uranium One .

Viro International Corporation , is pleased to report its ongoing commitment to the recently launched social media-driven shareholder communications platform in conjunction with netgenPR, a full service digital PR and communications agency specializing in public companies.

Utah regulators on Thursday approved a nearly $520,000 settlement over environmental violations at the state's only large-scale incinerator for hazardous waste.

Waste Management, Inc. announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 6.125% senior notes due November 30, 2039 under a shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

West Monroe is getting nearly $5 million in federal money for wastewater improvement efforts.

The deal will help IESI-BFC, the No. 4 North American trash hauler, expand its presence in Canada and allow it to establish a presence in the U.S. state of Florida, IESI-BFC Chief Executive Keith Carrigan said.

Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson is asking that he receive no more than 18 months in prison when he is sentenced Friday on federal bribery charges.

A federal appeals court panel has upheld a 2005 court decision that effectively halted the development of what would have been one of the nation's largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.