THE WORLD'S WORST LAWBREAKERS - WORSE THEN EVER

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    Waste Management Incorporated received legal judgments of at least $357.2 Million from 1991 to 2000. These judgments over ten years are three and one-half times the 1970-1991 judgments of $104.6 Million! If you thought WMI was bad in the eighties, they were seven times the worse in the nineties. In addition to the $5.7 million environmental non-compliance fines over $1,000, they were adjudged other court judgments including a $220 million shareholder settlement, a $91.5 million Federal court judgment, and a $11.6 million Chemical Waste Management Pennsylvania guilty plea. Click for details of others judgments.

    WMI continues to be one of the worst corporation in America. Their pollution, corruption, and racism are unbelievably stinking. With tens of stockholder lawsuits in recent years, a desperation merger, a turnover of six CEOs in two years, a worst case drop in stock value in 1999, WMI continues to attempt to recover as the world's largest waste management company. But plans to sell its international operations may even end this claim!

     Check out these other organizations to confirm how bad Waste Management is.EBIC (Click WMX at bottom  of homepage), INFACT, (Click Hall of Shame) and Rachel's (Click search back issues and then WMI: A Culture) have provided analyses of their corruption in politics and their pollution in the nineties. In addition Common Cause and the Center for Responsive Politics give details on some of WMI's massive lobbying activity.

    During the eighties Waste Management (WMX) had been fined and penalized 50 million dollars. A review by the Ventura County, CA sheriff's department found the following violations between 1980 and 1991:

1) Criminal violation, 10 violations in 5 states; total fines and penalties, $5.1 million.

2) Antitrust civil cases, 23 in 23 states; penalties of S23.2 million.

3) Environmental civil cases, 22 in 12 states; total fines and costs of $5.4 million.

4) Administrative cases, 87 in 13 states,; total fines and penalties of $3.3 million.

    In addition, Chemical Waste Management (CWM) had 81 environmental actions in 12 states with fines and penalties or $15.3 million! CWM had been 77% owned by WMX, but in 1995 WMX took it completely over. Mainly through CWM operations, WMX admitted that it owned 104 Superfund sites (others said it was over 130 sites). WMX also owned 56% of Rust International. Another 40% of Rust was owned by Wheelabrator which is 58% was owned by WMX. Confusing? Well, a simple way to look at it is that WMX essentially controlled Rust International, Wheelabrator and also Waste Management International.. Today WMI owns 100% of all these subsidiaries. WMX is the world's largest provider of comprehensive waste management services, offering collection and disposal services for residential, commercial and industrial generators of solid, liquid, chemical, nuclear and hazardous wastes. Its sales in 1994 were $10.1 billion, profits were $784 million. Rust International is a leading provider of engineering, construction and environmental and infrastructure consulting services, hazardous substance remediation services and other on-site industrial and related services. Its clients are primarily from government and in the chemical, petrochemical, nuclear, energy, utility, pulp and paper, manufacturing, environmental services and other industries. 1994 sales were $1.7 billion with a $55 million profit. Wheelabrator concentrates on trash-to-energy facilities, water purification design and facilities, and advanced air pollution systems. In 1994 their sales were $1.3 billion and profits were $185 million.

     For extensive information on WMX in the eighties, also consult Charlie Cray's book on our site.For a Canadian view around the Adams Mine fight, see Highgrader Magazine.