California Attorney General Edmund Brown Jr. has filed criminal charges against the owner and two managers of a San Jose electronic waste recycling firm, accusing them of submitting US$1 million in fraudulent reimbursement claims for more than 2 million pounds of waste they never recycled.

Of nine distinct regions in the state — ranging from Long Island to Western New York — the Mohawk Valley ranks consistently at or near the bottom for government officials’ salaries.

The US federal government has firmed up its IT waste-cutting strategy by commissioning a guidebook for modular datacentres that will help it specify and plan deployments ( ZDNet UK - Infrastructure )

THE Scottish Government believes that the private sector and charities should help pick up the bill for its advertising campaigns aimed at changing people’s lifestyles, ac

The Labor Government is set to get intense scrutiny over its $43 billion National Broadband Network with key independent politician, Tony Windsor, singling it out as having a âfictitiousâ cost.

The cleanup of history’s worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns.

In light of the rapid expansion of the global market for electronic goods, the lifespan of many electronic goods continue to shorten. Consequently, there has been a rapid growth in electronic waste (e-waste).

MABALACAT — Mayor Marino Morales urged employees of the local government to help in the implementation of Republic Act 9003, otherwise known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act. read more

The financial difficulties this state faces were decades in the making and there is a great deal of work that still needs to be done to control spending and reduce the tax burden so that our economy can grow.

NEW ORLEANS – THE cleanup of history’s worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns. The soft, absorbent boom that has played the biggest role in containing the spill alone would measure more than twice the length of California’s coastline, or about 3,200km.

State workers, others weigh in on government waste, privatization, cuts.

The government will quickly appeal a court ruling that undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Obama administration declared Tuesday

The Government will renew its attack on Labour's ''legacy of waste in office'' today.

WISCASSET Locals who have long waited for the federal government to make good on its promise to remove nuclear waste from Wiscasset by 1998 met face to face Tuesday with President Barack Obamas task force on the subject.

In less than an hour, two meetings this week perfectly illustrated government #8217;s ability to waste mountains of money.

Texas Digest: Review sought of radioactive waste plans; fire in Allen kills 17 horses

The public can now track how much energy Whitehall wastes thanks to online energy meters, the government has announced.

Sita Australia Pty Ltd., Thiess, Transpacific Industries Ltd. and private equity firm Archer Capital may bid for WSN Environmental Solutions, the waste management unit of the New South Wales government, the Australian Financial Review reported in its Street Talk column, without saying where it got the information. The sale is expected to be completed by the end of the year and may fetch A$200 …

In just the past six weeks, this Conservative government has made bad decisions that have or are going to waste enough taxpayer money to fund the $4 million “deficit” of the prison farms for years to come.[...]

China Industrial Waste Management, Inc. , a leading environmental services and solutions provider in China, today announced that the Company’s 90%-owned subsidiary Dalian Dongtai Industrial Waste Treatment Co., Ltd. signed a major waste management contract with a national petrochemical firm located in Liaoning Province .

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker wants to create a new commission to find government waste, fraud and abuse.

The Trafigura toxic cargo case is like a film where the lead actor, the Government, is continuously on mute, says Labour MP Owen Bonnici.

WASHINGTON—-Citizens Against Government Wastes Vice President of Policy, David Williams will be appearing on Capital Insider a new show on TBD.com/News Channel 8 WJLA that focuses on federal government, federal workforce, and business issues in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released its preliminary analysis of the House version of the fiscal year (FY) 2011 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. There are 127 projects costing taxpayers $92.6 million in the bill. This represents a 53.3 percent decrease from the 272 projects and a 40.6 percent decrease from the $156 …