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EPA administrator Lisa Jackson announced Monday that the agency would not push through regulations against large greenhouse gas emitters until 2011. Also, Ms. Jackson announced that the agency would raise the threshold for the Clean Air Act on regulating carbon dioxide emissions. The delay comes after multiple groups, including eight Senate Democrats, expressed concern on the potential [...] During this year alone, the cement industry is expected to spend approximately $3.5 billion to help control atmospheric emissions. By 2015, spending is predicted to rise to nearly $5 billion annually. Each region of the world is facing different challenges and taking different steps in order to meet increasing emission standards. In the United States, most of [...] Members of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), lobbying on behalf of the cement industry as a whole, are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to not add new regulations limiting the amount of mercury and other pollutants emitted from cement plants. Their argument is based on the subsequent rise in production costs which would seriously hamper [...] “You are a leader if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more.” – John Quincy Adams This is the maxim that the leaders of BGE feel encompasses the atmosphere and culture they are trying to live and work by. For more information on this and other leadership topics, see the [...] The Environmental Protection Agency has attempted to classify fly ash as a national priority for recycling. Conversely, environmentalist groups are lobbying for the EPA to designate fly ash as a ‘hazardous’ by-product of coal power plants. The government agency is struggling through the opposition as it attempts to promote the re-use of the by-products through its Coal Combustion Products [...] Recently Holcim installed a complex of solar panels at its plant in Penrose, Colorado, making the Swiss company the first to use solar energy to power a cement plant in the United States. The complex consists of 528 panels arranged in an area approximately 65% of an acre. The panels are rated at 100.32 kilowatts and [...] Sustainable energy is a major concern in many industries around the world today. Companies are trying to develop new ways to make their products and methods of operation more efficient and eco-friendly. For companies that rely heavily on the combustion of oil and other fossil fuels, this concern for energy has manifested itself into the research [...] With the world’s economies in the throes of recession, industry is at a “strategic inflection point,” according to Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel. These inflection points are times when a company either invests during the down-cycle or faces eventual failure. No world economy has grasped this idea as well as the Chinese. The Chinese-appointed chief executive [...] Fly ash has long plagued the power industry as a hazardous (containing trace amounts of lead, mercury, arsenic, etc.) and mostly useless by-product of their coal burning power stations. Currently, approximately 57% of all fly ash produced in US power plants ends up in landfills. Companies have been trying to find beneficial uses for [...] |
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