Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

Good morning, and thank you for joining us on the call today. Today, we will be discussing our second quarter 2024 results, which were released yesterday afternoon. Here with me today are John Casella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Casella Waste Systems. Hello, operator. Were you going to say something?

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We're good. Sorry, Charlie. Go ahead. We have John here. Ned Coletta, our president. Brad Helgeson, our Chief Financial Officer, and Sean Steeves, our Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste Operations. After a review of these results and an update on the company's activities and business environment, we will be happy to take your questions. But first, please be aware that various remarks we may make about the company's future expectations, plans, and prospects constitute forward-looking statements to the purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions under the private securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the risk factors section of our most recently filed Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, which are on file with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views in any subsequent date. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so even if our views change. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to today, August 2, 2024. Also during this call, we will be referring to non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, to the extent they are available without unreasonable effort, are included in our press release filed on form AK with SEC. And with that, I will now turn the call over to John Casella to begin today's discussion.