The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with the garbage-disposal giant Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc. over allegedly illegal hazardous-waste practices at a landfill in Franklin.
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Read More »State officials are calling for the adoption of local ordinances that would force salvagers to provide a list of everything they plan to remove from a vacant building.
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Read More »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., ...
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Read More »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 ...
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Read More »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 ...
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Read More »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 ...
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Read More »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 ...
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