Sentences with phrase «as cement kilns»
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to identify categories of facilities that are major sources of toxic air pollutants and set emission standards for each category, such as cement kilns.
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Today about one quarter of that CO2 comes from industries that happen to be located close to old oil fields and produce lots of CO2 as a by - product, such as fertilizer manufacturing plants or cement kilns.
Andy O'Hare, vice president for regulatory affairs of the Portland Cement Association, defends the kilns as «ecological stewards» because they use «other industry castoffs productively» and notes that dioxin emissions are regulated by the EPA.
The algae is then expected to be harvested and used as biomass fuel in the plant's cement kiln.
The unregulated pollution from cement kilns is emitted in or nearby many major U.S. urban areas and also within a few miles of such major bodies of water as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Huron and the San Francisco Bay.
Cement kilns co-processing hazardous waste are explicitly mentioned in the Stockholm Convention as an industrial source having the potential for comparatively high formation and release of these chemicals to the environment.
Uroš Macerl, an organic farmer from Slovenia, successfully stopped a cement kiln from co-incinerating petcoke with hazardous industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists and leveraging his status as the only citizen allowed to challenge the plant's permits.
Uroš Macerl, Slovenia: Uroš Macerl, an organic farmer from Slovenia, successfully stopped a cement kiln from co-incinerating petcoke with hazardous industrial waste by rallying legal support from fellow Eko Krog activists and leveraging his status as the only citizen allowed to challenge the plant's permits.