California
Ten cities, including four in the Southeast area, have agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to help clean up a Monterey Park dump once considered one of the most toxic in the nation.
July 9, 1992
Courts: Judge refuses to dismiss charges against Waste Management, executives over Mojave Desert landfill plan.
July 9, 1999
At first, the townspeople were curious. Then they were alarmed.
Sept. 26, 1987
Pacific Treatment Corp., a waste-chemical transfer plant in Logan Heights, has settled an administrative complaint brought by the state of California for $105,000, Department of Health Services officials announced Wednesday.
July 13, 1989
Steve Anear, a San Diego County deputy district attorney, is looking for dirt on the world’s largest garbage company.
June 10, 1991
Greenspace
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June 29, 2011
A Santa Clara County grand jury has charged Waste Management of California, a subsidiary of the nation’s largest trash company, with grand theft in a garbage-mixing scheme in which the company allegedly cheated a rival landfill operator and the city of San Jose out of at least $850,000 over six years.
July 16, 1992
In a landmark agreement that advances efforts to clean up one of the nation’s worst hazardous waste dumps, 14 Los Angeles County cities and a host of waste haulers and other public agencies agreed Thursday to pay more than $63 million to clean up the landfill in Monterey Park.
Dec. 30, 1994
Business
The peace dividend is becoming a green dividend as America’s largest corporations discover enormous profits to be made cleaning up the environmental mess that their own technologies spawned.
Sept. 15, 1991
Environmental groups on Wednesday hit the nation’s biggest hog processor with a racketeering lawsuit accusing the company of deliberately fouling water, air and soil as part of a strategy to drive competing small farmers out of business.
March 1, 2001