Sentences with phrase «for cement kilns»

«Ten years after it was required to set standards for cement kilns, EPA finally got around to requesting basic information related to mercury emissions from nine of the major cement kiln companies operating in the U.S. EPA claims that it will use this information to finally propose mercury standards for cement kilns sometime in the summer or fall of 2008, but confidence in that timeline is low given all of the agency's stalling to date.

Not exact matches

«The combined effects of the standards for industrial boilers and cement kilns is just 20 to 60 million tonnes of CO2 a year,» Erickson says.

«Cement kilns are great for disposing of almost anything,» Bernstein says.

While Reum has sold tires for burning in the past, he has not delivered a single tire to a cement kiln or a paper mill for years.

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.

Twenty percent of China's emissions come from its cement kilns, essential for its construction boom and likely to be working overtime this year amid preparations for the Olympics and rebuilding after last month's devastating earthquake.

Even larger gains are within reach for cement, where simply shifting to the most efficient dry kiln technologies can reduce energy use by 42 percent.

For instance, if you work at a cement plant, beware: EPA's new cement kiln regulation could shut down 18 plants, threatening 1,800 direct jobs and 9,000 indirect jobs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency refused for years to set emission standards for mercury from cement kilns.

For more than a decade after Congress told it to curb dangerous mercury pollution from cement kilns across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to take action.

How EPA Has Failed to Control Mercury Pollution From Cement Kilns,» the Earthjustice / EIP report outlines specific recommendations for EPA and state agency action based on the following key conclusions:

The senators also took Shaw to task for his vote to renew permits for Asarco's copper smelter in El Paso and for one that denied citizens a hearing on the public health impacts of a cement kiln in Midlothian, near Fort Worth.

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.

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.

Earthjustice continues to push for strict regulations on power plants and cement kilns, two mega-producers of greenhouse gases.

In heavy industy, fossils fuels will always be required for lime and cement kilns, metal smelters, steel mills, foundries and metal casting plants, metal cutting and braising torches, all factories that make ceramics (e.g., bricks, tiles, china, glass, etc), all food production, processing and distribution, space and water heating, cooking and baking, BBQ's, manufacture of porcelain - coated metals, harvesting of wood and lumber manufacture, isolation of essential oils by steam distillation for prepartion of fine fragrances flavors, etc because the fuels provide HIGH HEAT.

* State and federal regulatory agencies should require specific testing for mercury emissions; * Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) should be installed in every cement kiln to measure mercury emissions accurately and provide real - time data these emissions; * EPA must require cement kilns to install mercury pollution control devices.

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.