Waste Management, Inc. References

Brand Industries
	Waste Not
		#151

Chemical Waste Management Inc. (unit of WMX)
	Everyone's Backyard
		April 1993:23
		September/October 1993:14
		November/December 1993:8,17
		March/April 1994:11
		Winter 1995:17
	Waste Not
		# 65
		# 72
		#117
		#119
		#131
		#140
		#151
		#156
		#173
		#183
		#190
		#203 
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		#223
		#246
		#247
		#248

Chem-Nuclear Systems
	Everyone's Backyard
		Winter 1995:26

Chem Waste
	Everyone's Backyard
		Winter 1995:22

Waste Management, Inc.
	Everyone's Backyard
		April 1993:23
		September/October 1993:8,10,14,21
		November/December 1993:11,12,17
		March/April 1994:12,17
		Summer, 1994:4,9,10
		Winter 1995:26
	Waste Not
		#1
		#4
		#7
		#11
		#13
		#20
		#22
		#38
		#44
		#46
		#51
		#57
		#65
		#73
		#80
		#95
		#96
		#100
		#117
		#122
		#140
		#151
		#156
		#158
		#173
		#177
		#183
		#196
		#203
		#204
		#211
		#223 
		#230
		#246
		#247
		#257
		#262
		#267
		#270


Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. (formerly Signal)
	Everyone's Backyard
		April 1993:23
		September/October 1993:11,21
		November/December 1993:3,11
		March/April 1994:12
	Waste Not
		#1
		#4
		#7
		#11
		#12
		#29
		#51
		#53
		#64
		#73
		#80
		#85
		#100
		#103
		#106
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		#114
		#122
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		#151
		#156
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		#203 
		#211 
		#223
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		#311

Chemical Waste Management (CWM):

(See WMX for details on WMI's corporate name change and CWM's new structure; and, WMX: Waste Management Inc.)

Alabama, Emelle, 65

The U.S.A.'s largest hazardous waste landfill, 235
Clean Harbors, 117

Holnam Cement, 235

California:

Kettelman Hills, 246
Kings County, 246

Finances,

Cuts in workforce, 247
Debt rating, 247

Fines and Penalties:

• Illinois, Chicago, Between Sept 1990 and July 1991 CWM was assessed $7.85 million in federal and state penalties for air pollution, waste handling and record-keeping violations. The settlement that CWM agreed to was to pay $3 million, the largest fine ever imposed by the state of Illinois, 140, 190, 203

• Illinois, Sauget,

  On Sept. 28, 1993, the US EPA announced that the State of Illinois had proposed a fine of $3, 100, 000 against CWM for allowing the release of fugitive emissions from partially and completely burned hazardous waste, 248

• Texas, Port Author,

  On Sept. 28, 1994, the US EPA proposed an $18, 750 fine against CWM for Waste analysis and determination violations, hazardous waste manifest violations, 248

Illinois:
Chicago, 131, 140, 190, 203, 211, 215
• Feb. 1991, explosion at the Chicago haz. waste incinerator.

• CWM agrees to a $3.5 million fine to settle EPA charges, without admitting wrongdoing.

• A CWM employee told the Chicago Sun-Times that with official authorization he had mislabeled about 100 barrels of hazardous waste to help fool state inspectors into believing that the 55, 000 gallon limit had not been exceeded. (6-22-92), 203

Joliet, 173
Sauget, 151

Kansas, Sedgewick City, 65
Kentucky, Calvert City, 72
New York:

Model City, 246
Niagara County, 246

Ohio, East Liverpool, 156, 216
Superfund sites, 151
Texas, Port Arthur, 151
Violations, 151

National Public Radio, 44, 134

All Things Considered. John Nielsen's reported on the controversy surrounding Von Roll's WTI incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. This report would not have upset Waste Management Inc., one of NPR's major corporate sponsors. Listeners didn't learn that Waste Management's subsidiary (Rust) built the incinerator; another subsidiary (Wheelabrator) holds the U.S. licence for Von Roll's incinerator technology; while Waste Management holds the contracts to landfill WTI's waste. NPR also didn't mention that Dr. Edgar Berkey, interviewed in this broadcast, was paid by Von Roll/WTI for a report on the incinerator. NPR's listeners did hear, however, Dr. Berkey comments: "emissions from this plant are simply not a threat to public health," (Broadcast March 10, 1993), 231

Rust Engineering and Rust International

(See WMX for details on WMI's corporate name change and Rust's new structure.)

N.J., Gloucester Co., 175
N.Y., Brooklyn Navy Yard, 187
Ohio, East Liverpool, 156, 186, 216

Wheelabrator:

(see also Waste Management Inc; and, WMX)

California,

Los Angeles, 285
San Diego,

Comments on BACT, 80
Fines & Violations:
N.H., Claremont, 106, 114
N.H., Concord, 107
N.J., Gloucester County: Fined $110,000 for violations, 175

History of, 4

Incinerators: MSW,

Connecticut,
Bridgeport, 47, 73, 197, 252, 255, 311
Lisbon (in litigation), 255

Florida,
So. Broward County, 4, 11, 247, 252, 257
No. Broward County, 2, 11, 247, 252, 257
Pinellas County, 11, 73, 105, 247, 252, 259
St. Petersburg (see Pinellas County)
Tampa, 4, 252, 259

Maryland, Baltimore, 73, 197, 211, 252, 260, 311
Massachusetts,
Millbury, 7, 73, 197, 203, 252, 261, 311
No. Andover, 73, 197, 214, 252, 261, 311
Saugus, 12, 47, 73, 92, 103, 214, 252, 261
New Hampshire,
Claremont, 73, 85, 106, 114, 244, 247, 253, 263
Concord, 73, 107, 253, 263
New Jersey, Gloucester County, 253, 264
New York,
Peekskill, 73, 197, 253, 268, 311
Westchester County,
(see Peekskill)
Pennsylvania, Falls Township (Bucks Co.) 4, 100, 158
Washington, Spokane, 77, 253, 274, 311


Incinerators (MSW) proposals defeated:


California,
Gardena, 284
San Diego, 284

Illinois, Summit, 287
Maine, Bath/Brunswick & Augusta, 288
Maryland,

Baltimore, 288
Kent County, 288

Missouri, Kansas City, 289
New Hampshire,

Epping, 289
Exeter, 29, 289
Londonderry, 1, 288

New Jersey, Carteret, 290
Pennsylvania, Bucks County (Bensalem Township), 292
Virginia, Portsmouth, 294
Washington, Pierce County, 294


Incinerators sold to Ford Motor Credit Corp.


Connecticut, Bridgeport, 251
Massachusetts, Millbury, 203, 251, 261

Incinerator sold to State Street Bank & Trust Co. of Connecticut,

Maryland, Baltimore, 251, 260

JWP Inc.,
"JWP agreed to sell its five environmental businesses - in air pollution control and sludge processing - to Wheelabrator Technologies...for $88 million." (WSJ, May 9, 1994), 285
Signal, 51
Take over by WMI, 51
Minnesota, Dakota County, 4
Missouri,
Kansas City, 64
Sugar Creek, 64

National Recycling Congress, sponsor of, 272
New York,

Albany, 191
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 187, 283
N.Y. City Council vote on (August 27, 1992), 283
Glen Cove, 265
Ohio, East Liverpool, 156
Reports: (See also, Waste Management Inc: Reports.)

• "Bad Deals & Broken Promises: A survey of Wheelabrator's performance, " by Clean Water Action, 73
  
• The Bridgeport Post (CT) ran a 3-day series (May10-12, 1992) on MSW incinerators that accepted hazardous wastes, as reported in Toxic Release Inventory records. The following Wheelabrator incinerators were named: Baltimore (MD); Peekskill (NY); Millbury & North Andover (MA); Bridgeport (CT), 197, 201
Rhode Island, Johnston, 198
Rust International, 186
Von Roll technology, 122, 156
Waste Management Energy Systems, 259, 292

WMX,

Note: Waste Management Inc.'s corporate name change to WMX produced a "shuffling of assets" of its major subsidiaries. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (11-16-92): "The new company, Rust International Inc., would be formed by combining the engineering and construction units of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc.; the hazardous-waste cleanup business of Chemical Waste Management Inc.; and Brand Cos., an asbestos cleanup and construction services concern...Rust, to be based in Birmingham, Ala., would give Waste Management a more traditional engineering and construction company, like Fluor Corp., with which to pursue huge Department of Energy and other cleanup work expected to cost tens of billions of dollars over the next 20 years...Waste Management...owns majority stakes in Wheelabrator, the biggest operator of trash-to-energy plants; Waste Management PLC, which operates the overseas and hazardous waste businesses; and Chemical Waste, which in addition to hazardous-waste dumps and incinerators, owns a majority of Brand. The company's increasingly complicated capital structure has made analysis of its operations difficult...Waste Management Chairman Dean L. Buntrock and President Phillip B. Rooney still maintain tight control over all the units...", 223

Waste Management Inc.,

(See also Wheelabrator)

Alabama, Emelle, 65
Banned for 3-years from city-run garbage operations in Chicago, 38
Brand Industries, 151, 223
California:


Azusa, 151
Gregory Canyon, 211
Pala, 211
Palm Springs, 204
Rancho Mirage, 204
San Diego, 203, 211 - see also Reports, below.
Ventura County, 203, 211

Cement kilns, 151
Chem Nuclear, 151
Chemical Waste Management -See, Chemical Waste Management.
Clean Harbors, 117
Colorado, Henderson, 151
Control of the MSW incinerator market:

In 1993, WMX/Wheelabrator controlled 20%, while Ogden Martin controlled 26%, 247

Corporate name change to WMX, 223
Debt rating, 247
Disposal capacity, 247
Fines:

• Agrees to pay $19.5 million for price-fixing scheme, 122
• From 1980-1991, estimated at over $43 million, 151
• Over $52 million by 1992, 211
• $3 million fine by State of Illinois against WMI's subsidiary, Chemical Waste Management, 211
• See also, Reports below.
Florida, Monroe County, 286
Hawaii, Honolulu, landfill, 95
Illinois,

Chicago, hazardous waste incinerator, 65, 119, 140, 151, 203, 247

Joliet landfill, 95, 96
Landfill contract with Philadelphia, Penn., 7
Landfills recyclables, 20
Largest criminal antitrust case in Calif. history, 46
Medical Waste Incinerators, 151

Proposal: Mississippi, 80

Merger with Henley Group, 4
Mexico, Tijuana, 151
Michigan, Oakland County, 177

• Contributed $20, 000 to Westinghouse-funded campaign group which urged voters to vote for referendum to approve $500 million bond to build MSW incinerator. WMI had contract to supply landfill space, 177
• Eagle Valley landfill, 177
Minnesota, Minneapolis, 95, 96, 262
New Jersey, Newark, 151
New York, Hudson Falls, Washington County, 267
Ohio:
East Liverpool, 156
West Carrollton, 151

Pennsylvania:
• Bucks County: 15,500 tpd ash monofill proposed, 100
  
• Bucks County: landfill permit denied, 158
  
Price-fixing:

Agrees to pay $19.5 million, 123

Reports:

• "A Corporate Profile, " by Citizens' Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, 13
  
• "Final Report: Waste Management, Inc." Prepared by Edwin Miller, District Attorney of San Diego County, Calif. An attachment to this report is the "Ventura Report" describing 225 different criminal and civil actions in which WMI and its subsidiaries have been charged during the past 13 years, amounting to over $52 million in fines and penalties. Published in July 1992. WMI unsuccessfully sued Miller over this report. Miller stated in his report: "The definition of `organized crime' is generally assumed to be merely another term for the Mafia, or traditional organized crime families. However, now the term `organized crime' may be applied to many criminal enterprises with divergent interests. Any enterprise which is organized to circumvent the law for profit may properly be described as `organized crime.'" The report went on to detail over 225 WMI violations amounting to over $52 million in fines and penalties, 203, 211
  
• Rachel's Hazardous Waste News listing of 772 WMI subsidiaries, 20
  
• "Trash into Cash: Waste Management Inc.'s Environmental Crimes and Misdeeds," by Charlie Cray. This is a 30 page abstract published prior to the 285 page
• "Encyclopedia" on WMI (see below). A Greenpeace report, 151
  
• "Waste Management, Inc.: An Encyclopedia of Environmental Crimes and other Misdeeds, " by Charlie Cray. A Greenpeace report, 183
  
• "Waste Management, Inc., " by Ben Gordon. A Greenpeace report, 13
  
Revolving doors, 57, 151, 216
Rhode Island,
Central Landfill, 198
Johnston, 198
Rust International - See Rust International.

Takeover of Wheelabrator: 51, 100,
WTI, 156

Superfund sites, 151
Underwriter for PBS-TV, 44
U.S. Congressional campaigns, 151
Venezuela, 151
Waste Management of the Desert, 204
Westinghouse,

In Sept. 1993 it was reported that Westinghouse offered WMX its incineration plants, but no agreement was reached, 247

Wheelabrator, see Wheelabrator
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 151
WMI Medical Services of the South, 80