Tag: Bergeron Environmental and Recycling
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Appeal court denies Waste Management’s bid to hide antitrust records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The public may soon get fresh insight into why federal and state antitrust authorities allowed Waste Management’s $525-million acquisition of a rival – a controversial 2016 deal that eliminated recycling competition and hiked the cost of trash disposal across much of Broward. -
Waste Management uses lack of media coverage to argue its internal records should be kept secret
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last month, Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter ruled that Waste Management’s internal records about antitrust investigations of its buyout of a competitor should be unsealed. The public has a “right to know and to understand” the transaction’s “significant consequences” on competition and the price citizens pay for trash disposal, the judge said. Now… -
Will it be back to the future to solve Broward’s trash and recycling crisis?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Faced with a monopolistic trash disposal system and the decline of recycling, Broward County is about to have a back-to-the-future moment. -
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Documents, courtroom should be open to public in Waste Management case, Broward’s chief judge says
By Dan Christensen
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What is Waste Management trying to hide about antitrust review?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
High-stakes Broward litigation has heated up with a judge’s ruling that a recycling company has provided sufficient evidence to establish that Waste Management’s effort to hide certain corporate records is bogus because the garbage giant may have sought legal advice to perpetrate a crime or fraud.
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