BMC, which employs about 900 people in the Houston area, has encouraged area employees who are safe and able to work to work remotely, said Chief Executive Peter Leav in a statement. Waste Management, which has about 1,000 corporate staff at its Houston headquarters, instructed those employees to work from home. The company reopened three out of six landfills in the Houston area Monday morning, but later closed them again. Record flooding in the Houston area related to Tropical Storm Harvey is forcing some residents to evacuate and leading many thousands of others to call for help. He expects that most of the Houston stores will be open by the end of the week.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 28, 2017 21:01 UTC