Sentences with phrase «cement plant pollution»

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To allay concerns regarding pollution, the U.S. cement industry has voluntarily pledged by 2020 to reduce total carbon dioxide emissions from its plants to 10 percent below 1990 levels by upgrading manufacturing equipment and changing the ingredients in the finished product.

Read the story of one of the neighbors of the cement plant, a 74 - year old grandfather named Richard Cargill, who has been trying to clean up the pollution from the Cemex plant for over a decade.

Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

Under the landmark new rule, Washington businesses such as power plants, petroleum refiners and manufacturers of metal and cement, which are collectively responsible for two - thirds of carbon pollution in the state, are required to cap and reduce emissions starting in 2017.

We also need to take into account coal - burning power plants, mining, waste incinerators, hospital crematoria, cement factories, thimerosol, chemical plants, fungicides, chlor - alkali plants, mercury amalgams, switches, gauges, CFLs, and of all things, shipwrecks contributing mercury pollution to our planet.