What We're Reading
Industry reads hand-picked by our editors
Feb 13, 2025
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E&E News by POLITICO
DOGE lands at EPA.
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Local 10
‘Horrible mistake’: Environmentalists trash talk of ditching recycling in Miami.
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Waste Today
Viably makes depackaging system available in California.
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The Business Journal
Goodwill, GreenBoard team up for e-waste recycling in Ohio.
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Gothamist
Brooklyn, New York, residents blanketed by dust want city’s concrete recycling facility shut down.
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CBS 19
Tyler, Texas, expands recycling center to accept all plastics in partnership with Cyclix.
Feb 12, 2025
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Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon legislators want to understand harms of ‘forever chemicals’ from treated sewage on farms.
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Waste Today
Healthcare Waste Institute, part of NWRA, issues statement in support of CDC.
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ESG Dive
Acting SEC chair asks court not to schedule climate rule arguments.
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Waste 360
Multistakeholder group looks for systemwide answers to food waste problems.
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First Coast News
Jacksonville, Florida, city council approves doubling of residential garbage fee.
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Seacoast Online
Kennebunk, Maine, to switch from Casella to Ecomaine for waste services after vote.
Feb 11, 2025
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ProPublica
Inside Trump’s EPA: What employees say about the decision to stay or go.
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Waste Today
Castillo Engineering selected for landfill solar projects in New York.
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NNY360
Potsdam, New York, eyeing food waste collection test program, would need 120 households.
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POLITICO
Trump’s power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit.
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Financial Times
Waste Wars: the dark side of the global ‘recycling’ economy.
Feb 10, 2025
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AP News
WM’s zero-waste approach to golf’s raucous Phoenix Open catching on in the sports world.
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KJZZ
How Phoenix employees are diverting food waste from landfills.
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WWMT
Kalamazoo, Michigan, approves $12.3M deal for biosolids management technology.
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Highlands News-Sun
CompostUSA takes second shot at expanding Venus, Florida, facility.
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The Guardian
Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after investigation into US hazardous waste sent across border.
Feb 07, 2025
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WEMU-FM
Michigan Gov. Whitmer calls for major increase to landfill tipping fees.
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ESG Dive
New York reintroduces bills seeking climate risk, emissions disclosures.
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Salem Statesman Journal
Polk County, Oregon, to consider waste transfer facility that would reroute waste from Republic landfill.
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Oregon Capital Chronicle
A new fight is coming over plastic bags.
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WBAL TV
Nonprofits fear Maryland bill will kill Win Waste Innovations’ donations.
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AP News
US employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, jobless rate falls to 4%.
Feb 06, 2025
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ABC7 Los Angeles
Los Angeles County’s January wildfires generated 4.5 million tons of waste, nearly half of typical annual total.
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POLITICO
EPA funds still frozen despite agency memo, lawmakers’ pressure.
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Spectrum News 1
New York lawmaker introduces resolution to revoke Waste Connections’ Dunn landfill permit.
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Waste Today
FedEx acquires RouteSmart Technologies.
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CTV News
Green bin program for organics in Windsor, Ontario, area on track to launch this fall.
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Skagit Valley Herald
Environmental work to be done on former March Point landfill in Skagit County, Washington.
Feb 05, 2025
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The New York Times
EPA demotes career employees overseeing OLEM, enforcement and more.
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CBC News
Ontario orders closure of hazardous waste plant where explosion led to worker’s death.
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Capitol Weekly
California assemblymember calls for air resources board to address landfill methane leaks.
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Pasadena Star News
EPA addresses concerns over location of Eaton fire hazardous waste staging area in California.
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ESG Dive
Republican officials urge SEC, DOL to adopt anti-ESG, DEI rules.
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The Berlin Sun
Northern BioGas gets extension on payment for landfill gas-to-energy plant in Berlin, New Hampshire.