Sentences with phrase «cement kilns emit»
The EPA estimates that more than one hundred cement kilns emit more than 23,000 pounds of mercury each year, which have major adverse public health effects.
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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.
In Ravena, NY, just south of Albany, a Lafarge cement kiln reported mercury emissions in 2002 of only 40 pounds; actual emissions testing in 2004 revealed the kiln was emitting over 400 pounds of mercury.