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.
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
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.
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org Citing the public’s “right to know and to understand” the impact of Waste Management’s $525-million buyout of a competitor on the cost of disposing of trash in Broward, a judge has ordered company documents regarding federal and state antitrust investigations of the merger deal to
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward judge late Thursday gave Waste Management 10 days to explain in writing why internal company documents about federal and state antitrust reviews of a 2016 merger should be kept secret.
