New Mexico advocacy groups are urging Gov. Bill Richardson to support what they call strong, federal regulations for disposal of coal combustion waste.

BEIJING – China’s Government has ordered 2087 steel and cement mills and other factories with poor energy efficiency to close as it struggles to cut waste and improve the country’s battered environment.The “backward” facilities…

China's government has ordered 2,087 steel and cement mills and other factories with poor energy efficiency to close as it struggles to cut waste and improve the country's battered environment.

Media reporting and opposition politicking have left many people with the impression much, if not most, and maybe even all of the billions spent on school buildings under the Rudd government’s stimulus package has been wasted.

The assembly government pledges its supportover the next 25 years to help manage waste in north Wales that cannot be recycled.

About 120 waste pickers in Iloilo City will undergo a series of trainings that seeks to enhance their livelihood opportunities, skills, and participation in the citys Solid Waste Management program.

Ferreting out waste in Washington isn't much sport. Opportunities for the government to spend taxpayers' money are so plentiful that discovering boondoggles is like shooting fish in a barrel. Even so, it's disappointing to find so much waste in last year's stimulus, heralded by the Obama administration as the key to economic recovery.U.S. Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John McCain of Arizona ...

The Government is to spend in excess of 36 million to repatriate 250,000 tonnes of Irish household and commercial waste illegally dumped in Northern Ireland.

THE Government is set to spend in excess of 20 million to repatriate waste which was illegally dumped in the North over the past decade.

Starting tomorrow some 250,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste will be transferred from the North to the Republic. For a number of years rogue waste contractors trucked large volumes of residential, medical and industrial waste from the South where landfill costs were extremely high.

Matthew Falconer, a commercial real-estate developer, says he wants to save small businesses from the crushing weight of government waste.

The Government is to spend around 36m to dispose 250,000 tonnes of waste, which was illegally dumped in Northern Ireland.

Irish government to pay for clean up in NI

A medication mix-up has a Pickerington man asking questions about government spending and government waste.

THE GOVERNMENT is to spend in excess of 36 million to repatriate 250,000 tonnes of Irish household and commercial waste illegally dumped in Northern Ireland.

Government meetings – Aug. 2-6

Australia's ruling Labor Party is now level with the conservative opposition ahead of an August 21 election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, the second survey in three days to show a slide in support for the government.

The Harper government has axed a survey used to gauge the attitudes of public servants to the work they do, according to a media report.

Senior Labor frontbencher Stephen Smith says he is not going to waste his time trying to figure out who in his ranks has been leaking damaging information.

A looming nuclear waste dump in the top end may see the material first transported through Dubbo, say The Greens.

Provincial indecision on how best to deal with the municipal network of blue box recycling programs could have big implications locally. Both Belleville and Quinte West could soon be without a contract for landfill disposal and, by 2012, a contract to pick up recycling will expire.[...]

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July 29, 2010. Senator Loren Legarda today said there is a need to institutionalize a system of performance planning and reporting that will strengthen the accountability of government managers . "I filed Senate Bill No. 2127 recommending the measuring of government service quality versus public...

WASHINGTON Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants in a generation.