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Waste Management, Inc. References

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Below are the full listings of references to Waste Management in 3 of the most useful environmental publications for the grassroots activist. Here are how to get the publications if they’re not already here online.

RACHEL’s Environment & Health Weekly Issues referencing WMI

Co-optation, Infiltration & Front Groups

Crimes & Corruption

Chemical Waste Management (Hazardous Waste)

Waste Industry Trends & Compromised Regulatory Agencies

Targetting the Poor and Minorities

Local Battles

Waste Not & Everyone’s Backyard Issues referencing WMI

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 
		#215 
		#216 
		#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
		#107
		#114
		#122
		#150
		#151
		#156
		#173
		#175
		#191
		#197 
		#201 
		#203 
		#211 
		#223
		#244
		#247
		#251
		#252
		#253
		#255
		#257
		#259
		#260
		#261
		#263
		#264
		#268
		#274
		#275
		#280
		#284
		#285
		#288
		#289
		#290
		#292
		#294
		#294
		#311

Index of Waste Not Issues Referencing WMI

Brand Industries (subsidiary of Waste Management Inc.. Largest asbestos removal company in U.S.), 151

Chemical Waste Management (CWM):

    See WMX

    Alabama, Emelle, 65

    Clean Harbors, 117

    California:

      Finances,

          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:

          • 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:

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

          National Public Radio, 44, 134

          Rust Engineering and Rust International

          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,

          Comments on BACT, 80
          Fines & Violations:

          History of, 4

          Incinerators: MSW,

          Florida,

          see

          Maryland, Baltimore, 73, 197, 211, 252, 260, 311
          Massachusetts,

          New Hampshire,

          New Jersey, Gloucester County, 253, 264
          New York,

          see Peekskill

          Pennsylvania, Falls Township (Bucks Co.) 4, 100, 158
          Washington, Spokane, 77, 253, 274, 311

          Incinerators (MSW) proposals defeated:

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

          Missouri, Kansas City, 289
          New Hampshire,

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

          Incinerators sold to Ford Motor Credit Corp.

          Maryland, Baltimore, 251, 260

          JWP Inc.,

          (WSJ, May 9, 1994)

          Minnesota, Dakota County, 4
          Missouri,

          National Recycling Congress, sponsor of, 272
          New York,

          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

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

          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:

          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, 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

          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:

          Pennsylvania:

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

          Price-fixing:

          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,

          Rust International – See Rust International.

          Superfund sites, 151
          Underwriter for PBS-TV, 44
          U.S. Congressional campaigns, 151
          Venezuela, 151
          Waste Management of the Desert, 204
          Westinghouse, Wheelabrator, see Wheelabrator
          Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 151
          WMI Medical Services of the South, 80

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