Cement kilns are an integral part of the building boom in the Valley and elsewhere, turning raw limestone and waste ash from coal plants into the material used to build highways, tract homes and ...

This Nov. 16, 2015 photo shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture power plant in DeKalb, Miss. Carbon capture entails catching the carbon emissions from a power plant or cement or ...

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To resolve federal allegations of Clean Air Act violations, two cement companies have agreed to spend about $12 million on pollution-control equipment, and one of the companies also will pay a ...

Environmental groups Wednesday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce a law that would control the thousands of pounds of toxic mercury discharged into the atmosphere every year ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it would not require cement manufacturers -- including the nation’s largest emitter, in Tehachapi, Calif. -- to ...

UBE Industries ( ($JP:4208) ) just unveiled an update. UBE Corporation announced that its 50%-owned affiliate Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation ...

The belching, cement-producing smokestacks that dot Dallas County’s southern horizon have long befuddled area officials working to comply with federal clean air standards. Facing deadlines, fines and ...

An overheated kiln led to a fire Friday night at a Northampton County cement plant, according to the Forks Township fire chief. Firefighters from four departments battled the blaze for two hours at ...

So far, the multimillion dollar rebuilding of a five-decade-old cement plant in Ravena begun in 2014 is on track to be mechanically completed by next summer. Advertisement Article continues below this ...

TXI's older kilns have been idle since late 2008, a response to a downturn in demand for cement. TXI will permanently shut down its four oldest, highest-polluting cement kilns in Midlothian and will ...

Jeff Galemore pointed to house after house as he steered his white pickup through a tree-lined neighborhood in Chanute, Kan., a town of 9,000 on the state’s southeastern prairie. “This person right ...