Ed Egl | Waste Management, Inc. |
James C. Fish, Jr. | Waste Management, Inc. |
James E. Trevathan | Waste Management, Inc. |
Devina A. Rankin | Waste Management, Inc. |
Brian Maguire | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Hamzah Mazari | Macquarie Capital (NYSE:USA), Inc. |
Noah Kaye | Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. |
Patrick Tyler Brown | Raymond James & Associates, Inc. |
Michael E. Hoffman | Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. |
Jeffrey Marc Silber | BMO Capital Markets (United States) |
Ken Wang | First Analysis Securities Corp. |
Michael Feniger | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Waste Management Second Quarter 2018 Earnings Release Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. And, later, we will conduct the question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. And as a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr.