NewsBusiness, Labor At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaSeptember 5, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash Industry A ProPublica review found that the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry may have overlooked another potential impropriety involving Sanitation Salvage. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 28, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections The Business Integrity Commission suspended the license of one of New York’s biggest garbage haulers after it was involved in two fatal accidents and a spate of collisions. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 24, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor “Yo, Take the Rap for Me”: More Trouble for a Garbage Hauler This time, an unlicensed employee was behind the wheel of a Sanitation Salvage truck when it smashed head-on into a sedan on a Bronx street. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 20, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor A Fatal Accident Leads to Broader Questions About NYC Trash Hauler’s Operations A ProPublica inquiry sparked by the death of a motorist in Brooklyn shows the trash company involved is headquartered on land owned by someone banned from the industry years ago. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 13, 2018
NewsBusiness, Labor The Sanitation Industry’s Safety Record Is Again an Issue The company whose truck was involved in the fatal accident in Brooklyn has repeatedly been cited for safety violations. Kiera FeldmanProPublicaAugust 2, 2018
NewsImmigration, Labor The Death of Mouctar Diallo Mouctar Diallo came to New York City from Guinea seeking a life “for the better.” Then he entered the bruising world of Sanitation Salvage. Kiera FeldmanProPublica, Voice of AmericaJune 4, 2018
NewsEnvironment, Politics Toxic Drinking Water Becomes Top Issue for Midterm Candidates Across the US Candidates in Michigan, New Hampshire, and North Carolina put PFAS at the center of their campaigns. Sharon LernerThe InterceptJune 4, 2018
NewsEnvironment, Health EPA’s “Leadership Summit” on PFOA Pollution Will Exclude Victims and Community Groups The EPA doesn’t want to hear from people who have PFOA and other PFAS chemicals in their drinking water. Sharon LernerThe InterceptMay 18, 2018
NewsEnvironment, Politics Scott Pruitt’s Policy Director at EPA Met with Hundreds of Industry Representatives, Emails Show The emails of former EPA senior counsel Samantha Dravis show more than 90 meetings with industry. Sharon LernerThe InterceptMay 16, 2018