Cement News tagged: Environmental
California set to improve its environmental credent
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (along with the legislature) has a chance to make California a world leader in reducing global warming. The Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB 32, would place limits on ca
No to coal in Idaho
Gov. Jim Risch signed an order that essentially keeps mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants out of Idaho. "I have concluded that it is unwise and imprudent to opt into the federal mercury program,"
First Wallboard Manufacturer to Partner with GRA
USG was the first wallboard manufacturer to contract with GRA’s parent company, Gypsum Recycling International, to purchase reprocessed gypsum for the production of new wallboard. GRA’s fi
Enviro notice to cement factories
The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notices to the State Government and two cement factories of Rewa district on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for causing water, air and noise pollution in 18 vi
Ha Long Bay not listed as in danger
Deputy Director of the Ha Long Bay Managing Board Nguyen Cong Thai who has returned to Vietnam from the 30th conference of the World Heritage Committee held in Vilnius, Lithuania, said on August 2 tha
Siam Cement unit to develop alternative fuel for industries, Thailand
Siam Cement Group is taking part in a government-backed project to develop coal-water mixture (CWM), a coal-based fluid fuel, and promote it as a substitute for imported fuel oil.
Rugby Cement warned over fuel burning scheme, UK
Owners of the Rugby Cement works have been warned they must prove a proposed fuel burning scheme is not not ’harmful’ to the town. About 100 residents and councillors attended a meeting at
Date set for cement firm inquiry, UK
A public inquiry is to be held into a cement firm’s plans to build a new site to dispose of its waste. Flintshire Council last year rejected plans by Castle Cement to bury dust from its multimil
Cement plants blamed for higher mercury pollution
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that, across the country, cement kilns are responsible for thousands of pounds of mercury pollution each year. Despite this, THE EPA has ignor
Collision course in Adelaide
Poor planning decisions are setting the scene for conflicts between residents and businesses placed too close together, the state’s Chamber of Mines and Energy says. The Newport Quays developmen
Eighty firefighters stop cement plant blaze, US
A stubborn coal fire in a concrete silo at Keystone Cement in East Allen Township kept dozens of firefighters busy for about seven hours Saturday
Problems over tyres in Cemex’s Fairborn kiln
Two US environmental organizations recently launched a campaign to urge cement producer Cemex Inc. to trash its
Lafarge’s Richmond Plant celebrates half a century
Cement from Lafarge’s Richmond, British Columbia, plant has been used to help build the greater Vancouver landscape for the past 50 years. As the company’s first plant in North America, th
PIL seeks closure of cement plants
A PIL filed by a law student seeking closure of cement plants in and around Khrew of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has put the Wildlife Department, the Pollution Control Board and other concerned d
BCA: Cement industry cuts CO2 emissions
The UK cement industry has cut its annual emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas linked with global warming by more than 18 per cent (over 2Mt) over the last eight years, according to the latest Perform
Cement Company Tries to Explain Pollution
Cimentos de Mocambique, has tried to blame the electricity company, EDM, for the clouds of cement dust that frequently exit its factory in the southern city of Matola.