Wednesday, October 31, 2012
News reports say that the environmental cleanup company will purchase Safety-Kleen Inc. for $1.25 billion.
Clean Harbors Inc., a Norwell-based waste management company with a location on Quincy Avenue in Braintree, has reportedly agreed to buy another cleanup firm for $1.25 billion. The aquisition will mean that Clean Harbors moves into the field of recycling used motor oil, according to Reuters. The company will pick up Texas-based Safety-Kleen Inc. a decade after purchasing its chemical services business. Safety-Kleen's clients include NASCAR, the Boston Globe reports. Clean Harbors saw revenue of almost $2 billionin 2011 and net income of $127 million. Safety-Kleen reported $1.3 billion in revenue and net income of $136 million, according to the Globe. Locally, Clean Harbors was at the center of a dispute between Braintree officials and the …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Braintree will use the money to help pay for a new ladder fire truck.
Following months of pressure from local, state and federal officials, the federal government has agreed to provide Braintree with $450,000 from a hazardous waste settlement with Clean Harbors that originally targeted $1 million for tree plantings in Boston. Mayor Joseph Sullivan said on Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to the mitigation change after the town showed it was not going to give up on funding for an East Braintree aerial platform fire truck. "We never should have been put in this position," Sullivan said. "We had our backs to the wall and we had to push back." Last August the two federal agencies announced that Clean Harbors would pay $1.7 million in fines and …
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
A settlement between the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Harbors over hazardous waste violations at its Braintree location sent a $1 million project to Boston instead of Braintree.
The Town of Braintree, in an appeal filed with the U.S. Department of Justice, called the EPA's Clean Harbors settlement from August that sent $1 million to Boston instead of Braintree "inappropriate and improper" because it is inconsistent with federal law and the EPA's own policies. Along with a 17-page report rebutting the Aug. 15 decision, prepared by Town Solicitor Carolyn Murray and the mayor's office, the filing contains several letters from Braintree residents, local officials and the East Braintree Civic Association. It was sent electronically to the Assistant Attorney General for Environmental and Natural Resources last Friday and also mailed over the weekend, Mayor Joseph Sullivan said. "It's a detailed response to the …
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Regardless of a final decision in the EPA settlement with Clean Harbors, which sent $1 million to Boston, Braintree officials say they will acquire a new fire truck to be based in East Braintree.
A settlement last week between the federal government and Clean Harbors over hazardous materials violations that sent $1 million to Boston instead of Braintree angered local officials, who had been negotiating with the company over restitution in the form of a new fire truck. State and federal lawmakers and Mayor Joseph Sullivan are protesting the decision, reached by Clean Harbors, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Yet regardless of the outcome of a federal appeal, Braintree officials will pursue the purchase of a ladder truck, saying that it is a much-needed first-response tool for fires and other catastrophes in East Braintree and the entire area. "It is an equitable solution for the community that…
