Waste Management News

The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Louisiana has about $1 million in funding that will be spent on four watersheds to improve water quality.

It's been coming for years, and now a state agency has a September deadline to add the parts of Dallam County with no protection against critical groundwater shortages or future threats to supplies to a nearby water district.

Late 1996 Tacoma City Manager Ray Corpuz leads a delegation to speak with LeMay about putting a car museum in Tacoma.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has notified the city of Humphrey of several violations at its wastewater treatment plant.

Overview -- The headroom under Synagro Technologies Inc.'s financial covenants has become limited and the company's revolving credit facility matures in less than one year.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is lending $9.3 million to the city of Zachary to repair and replace sewer collection lines and pump stations in areas throughout the city.

Yard waste generally would be collected with garbage and taken to the landfill from early December through the beginning of April, under the changes.

In a time when so much bad is going on in our community, it is rewarding to hear about good.

Pinpoint Weather Forecast A mild Friday morning, then mostly sunny and hot in the afternoon with only a stray thundershower or two possible.

Idaho environmental regulators have suspended review of an air-quality permit for a planned garbage-to-energy plant in Boise after deciding they needed more information.

Students and staff at the Wind Energy Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College has determined the cause of the malfunctioning wind turbine at the Department of Environmental Quality office in Bay City.

Given the slow moving process of getting the economy back on track, the Federal Reserve has signaled that it plans to keep interest rates at historically low levels until 2014.

The dry conditions and winds are causing higher than normal levels of airborne particulate matter today and wind gusts are predicted to be as high as 34 miles per hour tonight and 47 m.p.h. tomorrow afternoon.

Arizona authorities say a mining company has agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine to resolve numerous air quality violations in Mohave County.

Visitors to the Wayland Transfer Station Saturday might not notice a change immediately, but they certainly will when it comes time to drop off their recycling.

The following information must be provided, according to the Department of Environmental Quality, before any tires will be accepted: name, address and current Louisiana driver's license.

The US waste management industry includes about 18,000 companies with combined annual revenue of about $75 billion.

SUNBURY, Pa. - Clean Harbors Inc. senior vice president Scott Metzger pulled into the dirt lot of a once-abandoned factory yard here, past gleaming trucks painted with the Norwell, Mass., company's signature red, and opened the door to the environmental services firm's newest offices.

A Timberville dairy producer has paid a $6,825 fine for allowing manure to spill into the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

The "can ban" in place for the Comal and Guadalupe rivers remains adrift in legal waters, sent back to a Comal County court on Wednesday, where riverside businesses hope to sink the ordinance.