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Company eyeing area for energy facility
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- A clean energy company based in Carmel is considering locating an energy plant in the South Bend area that would vaporize waste, including garbage and solid waste, and turn it into energy. Milton Stewart, CEO and chairman of Green Earth...Tags: Plant Openings, Waste Management Incorporated, Finance, Environmental Issues, Companies and Corporations
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Holiday schedule for St. Joe's curbside recycling
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY – The Solid Waste Management District of St. Joseph County would like to remind you of the curbside pick-up holiday schedule. The day after Christmas and New Years, trucks will resume their normal delivery for Monday routes,...Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Holidays, Waste
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Bring it: Elkhart County's household hazardous waste drop is Saturday
Using your holiday weekend to clean out your basement and/or garage? Got household hazardous waste you don’t know what to do with?Bring it to the Elkhart County Correctional Facility, C.R. 7 at C.R. 26 (enter from C.R. 7), Elkhart, between 8 a.m....Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Hazardous Materials, Waste
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If approved, new garbage contract includes weekly recycling pickup
Orland Park residents are likely to see a small decrease in their garbage bills in coming months after a village committee OKd a proposed 10-year contract with Waste Management Monday. If the full Village Board approves the measure at its June 3...
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ANALYSIS-German households pay for lower industrial power prices
Reuters* German wholesale power is cheaper than in France, Netherlands * Cheaper industrial power paid for by soaring household bills * Ways sought to rein in household bill explosion By Henning Gloystein and Vera Eckert LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters)...Tags: Siemens, European Union, Renewable Energy, Politics, Alternative Energy
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Analysis: German households pay for lower industrial power prices
ReutersLONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German households are paying for ever cheaper wholesale power supplies to industry as the government uses money from soaring domestic bills to subsidize renewable energy, in turn creating overcapacity on the country's grid....Tags: Siemens, European Union, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Politics
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Buffalo Grove OKs trash contract giving residents free 35-gallon carts
The village of Buffalo Grove has elected to make new 35-gallon trash carts available free to residents. Under an agreement with Waste Management approved by the village board on Monday night, residents now have the option of choosing 35-gallon, 64-...Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Waste
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RPT-INSIGHT-The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
ReutersBy Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Toyota, Politics, Energy, Los Angeles International Airport
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All Delray Beach contracts should go out to bid, officials say
In keeping up with campaign promises, several Delray Beach city officials are going after city contracts they say were awarded without proper bidding. At Tuesday's workshop meeting, a majority of City Commissioners agreed to revisit two contracts that...Tags: Politics, Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Petrolia Incorporated, Delray Beach
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Press 7 for stinky: Landfill establishes odor hotline
With the rainy season just weeks away, Deerfield Beach's most dubious neighbor is taking a proactive approach. The Monarch Hill Renewable Energy Park sent a glossy mailing to between 12,000 and 15,000 households surrounding the 500-acre landfill...Tags: Renewable Energy, Waste Management Incorporated, Alternative Energy, Earth Day, Coconut Creek
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Oak Park composting program goes village-wide
One Oak Park resident reported not knowing how much food the family threw away until joining the village's pilot food-waste and soiled-paper collection that started last April. One woman said her family now throws out only one bag of garbage each month....Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Earth Day, Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy
A wind power project proposed on the lower Eastern Shore that's struggling to overcome objections from the Navy has a new, airborne worry — bald eagles. Federal wildlife biologists say the population of the once-rare national bird has grown so...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Science and Technology, Energy, Punishment, Wind Power
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