Sentences with phrase «standards for cement»

Down the line, the EPA is likely to set broader performance standards for each industry — indeed, some onlookers expect that standards for cement plants could hit as early as June of next year.

«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.

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He is a co-founder of Blue Green Canada (an environmental / trade union movement collaboration) and the Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate initiative, the first attempt in the world to create a green standard for the vertically integrated aggregate and cement industry.

China will raise standards for the production of cement, batteries, leather and heavy metals as part of its efforts to cut air, water and soil pollution, the environment ministry said on Friday.

«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.

«For example, a secure cement plug on the Norwegian shelf typically has to be 100 metres long, although the standard on the UK shelf is more commonly 100 feet (approx. 30 metres).

This led to an explosion in wealth & living standards, which got shared» round pretty equally for the next few decades — thereby cementing the myth of a classless society, the idea all Americans are middle class.

By adhering to the highest standards of quality to present a masterfully curated mix of dealers, artwork and design for collectors, curators and arts enthusiasts to explore, EXPO CHICAGO will cement itself as the paramount international contemporary and modern art fair.

Last year it issued new emissions standards for cars, and set out a timetable for rules on large stationary sources such as cement plants and refineries.

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

This includes API Standard 65 Part 2 (overseeing cementing and well construction practices) and API's Recommended Practice 100 - 2 (providing proven practices for planning and operating wells, and managing environmental aspects through the life of the well), two of hundreds of API standards and recommended practices cited by several federal agencies and state regulatory bodies.

The EPA could issue GHG performance standards for existing (as distinct from new or modified) coal power plants, as well as GHG performance standards for other industrial categories (refineries, cement production facilities, steel mills, paper mills, etc.).

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In addition to regulating fuel economy, EPA is applying Clean Air Act permitting requirements to large stationary sources of greenhouse gases: power plants, refineries, steel mills, pulp and paper factories, and cement production facilities.63 EPA will soon establish greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants and petroleum refineries.64 If these go unchallenged, it is likely that EPA will develop greenhouse gas performance standards for numerous other industrial source categories.

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.

In America, the plastics industry would go crazy over a standard like this; In each square foot of R - 20 insulation, cellulose insulation embodies 600 BTU, Mineral wool 2,980 BTU, and Expanded polystyrene is 18,000 BTU (according to Martin Holladay at the GBA) The concrete industry, responsible for 5 % of the CO2 emitted in the world, would be making cement overshoes.

I would ensure that the cement was up to standards such as the slope and percentages were meet and that the heights would work to the plans and preexisting cement if the job called for it.

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