The Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Clean Harbors third in its annual "Top 200 Environmental Firms" list. The slot is up two from 2016's fifth place rank. In addition to the full rankings, Clean Harbors placed top 20 in a number of subcategories, including No. 1 hazardous waste firm - more than doubling the revenue of the second ranked company. Clean Harbors was also named the best firm for…
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Crews from the company Clean Harbors began power-washing sidewalks and street areas with a bleach and chlorine solution in downtown San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to stop the spread of hepatitis A among homeless people. The area cleaned Monday included sidewalks around 17th Street and Imperial Avenue, where hundreds of homeless congregate and live in tents and other shelters along city…
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Clean Harbors is continuing to send people, supplies and resources to the Texas Gulf Coast to assist in the massive relief effort, bringing its 15 affected facilities in the region back to full operations, helping its employees and other victims and aiding its customers in their clean-up and recovery. Immediately following the hurricane, Clean Harbors crews joined search and rescue efforts.…
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Clean Harbors acquired Lonestar West earlier this month, a move that immediately vaults the company into the upper-echelon of hydro excavation service providers in the United States and Canada. An Alberta-based company, Lonsestar specializes in hydro excavation and daylighting - a safer water and vacuum alternative to traditional, hard edged digging that can damage underground pipes and wires.…
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Clean Harbors gained approval for plans to expand the Elgin, Ill., Safety-Kleen research and development branch to include a refurbishment center. Two facilities will be constructed and 25 people hired to help build state-of-the-art vehicles with the latest safety equipment and superior fuel-efficiency. Two older buildings will also be removed as various aesthetic upgrades are made to the campus…
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Heeding the call of environmentally-focused fifth graders in Las Vegas, a Clean Harbors employee helped educate the class about sustainability and is now giving them a hand in setting up a school-wide composting program. Clean Harbors Field Services Account Manager Tom Murphy spoke to the class for the first time in February. Students wanted to set up a system of boxes to separate waste, food…
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At the end of 2016, for the first time in two decades, a new commercial hazardous waste incinerator built in the U.S. came on-line. The $120 million incinerator, operated by Clean Harbors in El Dorado, Ark., can handle industrial and laboratory chemicals, manufacturing by-products, medical waste, and other solid and liquid materials. "As all chemists know, you can't destroy or create matter,"…
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No longer will Grant Sheriff Steve McCain have to tell flood victims that help may be there the next day, not after obtaining a fleet of watercraft through a grant and a donation. The three boats, an airboat and a personal watercraft -- a Sea-Doo search and rescue craft -- were added to the department through a $250,000 competitive grant secured through the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office…
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Keep El Dorado Beautiful has said that it plans to focus on spreading awareness about and the enforcement of state litter laws and city codes to clean up El Dorado. The group has taken its case to the El Dorado City Council and the El Dorado Police Department, asking that the city post signs around town, particularly in problem areas, to warn against littering and list the possible penalties for…
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Crews honored Martin Luther King's service to the nation with a day of service of their own cleaning up neighborhoods around the Clean Harbors Laurel, Md., branch. Employees and community members came together once again on Jan. 16 to clear trash from areas in Laurel - a city located between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Together, the crews picked up trash around local roads, businesses and…
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