"Trash into Cash" (1991) An abstract of the Greenpeace report on Waste Management,
Inc.'s environmental crimes and misdeeds, this is the short version of our full encyclopedia on the world's largest waste disposal company. © Greenpeace. 37 pages
Topics addressed in RACHEL articles on references page:
"...they had an acute problem with their electrostatic precipitators, and they literally had to run the plant based on the direction of the wind. In other words, if it was blowing inland, then they had to reduce the load. If it was blowing out to sea, then they could run it to design."
--testimony of Joseph W. McCarthy, Resource Recovery Manager, Metcalf & Eddy
According to the Corporate Library, "Mr. Arnelle became of counsel to Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, a North Carolina-based law firm, in November 1997, after retiring in 1996 as a senior partner from the law firm of Arnelle, Hastie, McGee, Willis & Greene, a law firm whose predecessor he co-founded in 1985. He is a director of FPL Group, Inc., Armstrong Holdings, Inc., Eastman Chemical Company, Gannett Corporation, Textron, Inc. and Waste Management, Inc. Mr. Arnelle is the past chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University and a director of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. He served as vice chairman and then chairman of the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees from 1993 to 1998."
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