Category: Environment
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Carnival’s Arison, Donald faced threat of criminal contempt before signing guilty plea to company’s probation violation
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Facing a federal court hearing to determine whether they should be held in criminal contempt, Carnival cruise honchos Micky Arison and Arnold Donald appear to have had twin epiphanies about their multi-million-dollar leadership failures. -
Carnival’s corporate culture assailed by feds as Arison inks new criminal plea deal pledging environmental reforms
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Princess Cruise Lines, wholly owned by Miami-based cruise giant Carnival Corporation & plc, pleaded guilty a second time Tuesday to violating probation stemming from its expensive 2017 felony convictions for environmental crimes and a subsequent cover-up. -
Bergeron vs Waste Management trial nears; focus on legitimacy of $525-million recycling deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years of complaints, amended complaints, and seemingly endless hearings, motions and incremental judicial orders later, the epic legal struggle between Waste Management and competitor Ron Bergeron is finally set for a non-jury trial later this year. -
Fortress forgave huge Trump loan, got federal permits to transport LNG by rail
By Ann Henson Feltgen and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A multi-billion dollar private equity firm whose subsidiary was awarded two special permits by the Trump Administration to haul hazardous liquified natural gas (LNG), including by rail along Florida’s east coast, apparently forgave more than $100 million in debt owed by President Trump. -
Arsenic and old sludge: A Hollywood environmental story
By Benjamin Paley
Hollywood Gazette
and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Hollywood’s plans to buy a former golf course and convert it into a nature preserve and passive public park are moving slowly amid concerns about the owner’s controversial decision to lay down a thick layer of lime sludge across the site. -
The Port Everglades mess: Millions unaccounted for or lost; the illegal dumping of untreated ship wastewater
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
“Gross mismanagement” at Port Everglades led to mass employee theft, millions of dollars in unverified county credit card purchases and millions more in apparently lost rent at the Foreign Trade Zone, according to a 337-page audit report.
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