Cement News tagged: Environmental
Lafarge Dunbar plant ’unsatisfactory’ environmental score
Lafarge Dunbar is the only industrial plant in the Lothians to receive an ‘unsatisfactory’ score in the
USA: no vote on last-minute cement plant legislation
It looks as if Titan America’s plans for a new cement plant in Castle Hayne will continue
Dominican President to consult the UN on controversial cement plants
President Leonel Fernandez announced yesterday that he requested of the United Nations Environment Program,
Northern Ireland: derelict quarry to get UK£100m harbour village makeover
A derelict quarry is to be transformed into an environmentally friendly harbour village under a UK£100m (€117.2m) development plan approved today.
USA: California weighs global warming fees on producers
California air regulators on Thursday will consider leveling the nation’s first statewide carbon fee on utilities,
USA: Texas sues Mexico cement maker Cemex for US$558m
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said on Tuesday he filed a suit against Mexican cement maker Cemex
USA: fight over ABQ cement plant comes to a head
Tonight the city of Albuquerque has scheduled a public information hearing to hear concerns about whether a North Valley cement company
USA: proposed federal emission rule threatens cement plants
Two major local employers, Lehigh Southwest Cement Company in Tehachapi and CalPortland Cement in Mojave, are facing a stringent new federal emission rule that may be impossible to meet.
Hot recycling helps to cement a future
Industrial waste has long been a problem for the companies that produce it as well as the broad community, but one firm has taken the view that waste can be an asset,
Four Pakistan cement plants want Karachi’s solid waste for fuel
Four cement factories in Pakistan have offered to buy Karachi’s solid waste to use it as fuel for their plants.
US cement industry protests EPA’s proposal to regulate kiln emissions
Advocates for the cement industry in the US and environmentalists are facing off in hearings this week as federal regulators call for comment on new rules to limit emissions
USA: Lafarge, waste management set up landfill methane system
Waste Management and Lafarge North America will unveil a US$2m landfill methane fuel system Friday at Lafarge’s Tulsa Cement Plant.
Cement firm fined over dust fall
Cemex UK has been ordered to pay UK£33,500 in fines and costs after homes, businesses and vehicles in Warwickshire were covered in dust.
Mixing it up over cement plant pollution
A US federal crackdown on toxic air pollution from cement plants is generating blowback from the industry
EPA proposed cement kiln rules opposed by industry
A proposed hazardous air pollutant regulation for the cement industry undermines the balance between
EPA extends comment deadline for proposed plant rules
EPA is extending the public comment deadline to September 4, 2009 on a proposal to slash mercury