secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. (RSG)
CIK:        0001060391
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-154026
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Republic Services shareholders elect all board nominees, reject shareholder proposals
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- All 12 director nominees elected; Katharine B. Weymouth received most votes against (46.1M of 284.8M votes cast).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 272.1M for, 12.3M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for 2022 approved with 289.7M for, 7.1M against.
- Three shareholder proposals (clawback, environmental justice audit, civil rights audit) all defeated with >60% against.
- Cascade Investment held ~34.8% of shares; Arizona voting statute noted but outcomes unchanged.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060391/000119312522154026/0001193125-22-154026-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1060391/000119312522154026/d335060d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-154026

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