<div id="subtitle">Republic Services says a ’93 deal lets it raise residents’ bills over county commission’s objections</div><div><p> Republic Services is now saying it doesn’t need county commissioners’ approval to start charging valley residents more for garbage collection.</p><p>Republic has laid ...
<div id="subtitle">Republic Services acting in bad faith by threatening to unilaterally raise garbage rates</div><div><p> Republic Services, which enjoys a monopoly on garbage hauling in the Las Vegas Valley, should be grateful for the long-term contracts it holds in Southern Nevada. Those contracts ...
<div id="subtitle">Republic rejects $6.19B bid from Waste Management as No. 1 waste hauler aims for No. 3 rival</div><div><p>The trash talking has begun.</p><p>In a stinging letter Friday, garbage hauler Republic Services Inc. rejected an unsolicited $6.19 billion cash ...
<div><p>As summer heats up, our thoughts return to garbage--specifically New York City's garbage. As I've mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use. To reiterate--in New ...
<div id="subtitle">Republic Services CEO's pay, bonus up in 2008, total package rises 53 percent, AP tally says</div><div><p>James E. O'Connor, chief executive of Republic Services Inc., received a 2008 compensation package valued at $10.6 million last year, according to Associated Press calculations of ...
<div><p>While New York City's inadequate waste management system is one of my constant themes or perhaps obsessions, at the end of December, the New York Post published a wonderful "man bites dog:" story: The amount of garbage we are producing is going ...
<div><p>CANADA - Remember the movie Back to the Future, when eccentric scientist Doc Brown rummages through the trash to find a banana peel, which he drops into the fuel tank of his futuristic car? The Quebec-based company Enerkem may turn that celluloid ...
<div><p> Republic Services is seeking a rate increase from commercial and residential customers to pay for the capping of the Sunrise Landfill, the Las Vegas Sun reported.</p><p>In a letter to the Clark County manager last month, area Republic President Bob Coyle indicated ...
<div id="subtitle">Waste Management offers to buy Allied Waste for $34 per share, or $6.19 billion</div><div><p>Waste Management, the nation's largest garbage hauler and landfill operator, says it is offering to buy disposal company Republic Services in an all-cash deal valued at $6.19 billion.< ...
<div id="subtitle">County should compel Republic to seal Sunrise Landfill at its own expense</div><div><p> With the public’s attention diverted by the election, the Clark County Commission could pull a fast one today by sticking Republic Services’ residential and commercial garbage customers with a ...
