Published: December 14, 2010
Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, waste management, WRR Environmental Services
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says an Eau Claire waste management processor is a severe violator of workplace safety rules. OSHA has issued 14 willful and one serious citation to WRR Environmental Services Co., with proposed fines of $787,000 for failing to fully implement a safety management program. Two [...]
Published: September 14, 2010
Tags: 4th District Court of Appeals, Delwiche, Department of Health Services, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Jeff Gore, John Johnson, landfill, Lynn Morgan, Muskego, plume, Superfund, vinyl chloride, waste management
By Marie Rohde The city of Muskego is developing a plan to protect a municipal well from a toxic chemical oozing from a former landfill, Mayor John Johnson said. The city well is about a mile east of the former landfill. Jim Delwiche, a hydrogeologist with the state Department of Natural Resources, said the chemical, [...]
Published: January 8, 2010
Tags: buyout, City Wide Recycling, City Wide Recycling LLC, Kunde, Milwaukee, waste management, WasteCap Resource Solutions, WasteCap Resource Solutions Inc.
By Sean Ryan Waste Management’s buyout of City Wide Recycling LLC won’t save Milwaukee-area contractors any money when they recycle construction debris. Milwaukee-based City Wide, which opened in October 2006, is the only business in the Milwaukee area that sorts construction debris and sells the material for reuse. “It is more expensive, but it’s also [...]
By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since [...]
Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com The town of Magnolia and a farming company are taking their development dispute to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals with both sides predicting dire consequences if they lose. Agricultural development in the state will die if Larson Acres Inc., Evansville, loses the case, said Eric McLeod, an attorney in the Madison office [...]
