All the headlines from our Waste Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2012 // Iowa City’s insurance may not cover the damage done in the landfill fire that’s been burning since May 26. At least two insurance experts told The Gazette that the city could be on the hook for the estimated $4...
Jun 8 2012 // A days-long fire at the Iowa City Landfill has created a combustible substance that officials are sending to western Nebraska for incineration.The Iowa City Press-Citizen said that the pyrolytic oil is a byproduct of the...
May 24 2012 // A jury has awarded $11.4 million to a garbage truck driver who was injured when the wheel fell off his truck.The San Francisco Chronicle says a federal jury in San Francisco made the award last Friday in a lawsuit filed by...
Dec 2 2011 // Federal environmental regulators have fined a Nevada company $79,500 for mishandling the storage of hazardous waste at a facility in Fernley. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the fine late Wednesday...
Sep 23 2011 // Five Star Specialty Programs, a division of Crump Insurance Services, Inc., and part of Crump Group, Inc., has launched a new breakdown service to buses and waste hauler vehicles insured through 5Star, the exclusive...
Apr 5 2011 // XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Group plc, has unveiled a new Electronic Data Destruction coverage enhancement developed exclusively for e-waste recyclers.“In the US alone, an estimated 400...
Aug 20 2010 // At least 80 Claymont, Delaware residents have joined a damage and personal-injury lawsuit targeting a long-troubled steel recycling plant there, in a case that claims owners failed for years to control “poisonous...
Jun 23 2010 // Willis Programs of New Hampshire, Inc., a unit of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it has signed an agreement with Krause and Butt Insurance Brokers Limited of Barrie, Ontario, Canada to offer the RecycleGuard program...
Apr 22 2010 // Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and this year the Environmental Protection Agency turns 40 as well. Earth Day, the EPA and activists have been catalysts for one industry’s growth, in particular.The...
Mar 4 2010 // A snow plow might have jarred loose the cover of a sewage pit where a teenager doughnut shop worker fell and died while taking out the trash, investigators said Monday.Amiri Zeqiri, 17, slipped into an open cesspool behind...
Feb 21 2010 // Aging is a fatal disease that is venerated in some cultures and dissed by others. In ours, it is clearly the latter. Too many post-baby boomers believe that honoring one’s elders is a quaint relic of the past and an...
Oct 19 2009 // After a protracted legal battle, Ohio has been awarded a $14.7 million judgment against four defendants stemming from a hazardous waste treatment facility that was not shut down properly.Attorney General Richard...
Sep 21 2009 // Fire department officials say a worker died in a forklift accident as employees prepared to leave for the day at a metals recycling plant in Concord, N.H. An emergency call at about 5 p.m. Tuesday indicated the employee...
Aug 28 2009 // The state Department of Environmental Protection is suing the owners of a former landfill in western Pennsylvania to recover more than $3 million in hazardous waste cleanup costs.The Boldan Landfill operated in an...
Aug 28 2009 // The Golden Eagle Insurance Co. will pay $400,000 to cover environmental investigation costs that the insolvent BKK Corp. was required to perform at its closed hazardous waste landfill in West Covina, Calif., the U.S....
Jun 2 2009 // Sloan Mason, based in San Diego, Calif., has introduced coverages for garbage/trash haulers and landfill operators, available nationwide. The A XV rated carrier provides general liability, pollution and auto coverage....
Dec 15 2008 // Environmental officials say a settlement has been reached to complete the cleanup of the Shpack landfill in Norton and Attleboro, MassachusettsThe landfill is a federal Superfund site contaminated with chemical and...
Aug 22 2008 // Officials in Johnston, Rhode Island say firefighters struggled to douse a large recycling plant fire over the weekend because cars there were stacked too high and were piled too close to each other.The blaze at the Metals...
Jun 2 2008 // Karen Clark, former CEO of AIR Worldwide, now heads her own firm Karen Clark & Co. (www.karenclarkandco.comwww.karenclarkandco.com). She made the statement, “garbage in, gospel out,” at the European...
May 1 2008 // State environmental officials say runoff from the thousands of gallons of water sprayed on a fire at a South Carolina recycling plant may have killed hundreds of fish.The facility where plastic bottles and cardboard are...