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The tri-partisan climate bill was expected to be unveiled in Congress yesterday after months of work, debate, and re-work. However, due to mixed signals from the White House and Senate majority leader Harry Reid, the bill has been postponed pending immigration reform. Members of Congress, including a co-writer of the bill, are infuriated by this delay [...] Talks are still underway concerning government regulation of fly ash by-product. Members of the Portland Cement Association (PCA) are part of a coalition of various industries that are reviewing the legislation in attempts to find a universally satisfying proposal. The legislation is expected to take one of following three paths: 1) Classify the fly ash as hazardous except [...] Senators John Kerry (D-Ma), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joseph Liebermann (I-CT) have been working on a sweeping climate change bill for months and are expected to reveal the bill in session on Monday, April 26. The senators have been pulled in twenty different directions by varied lobbyist groups, industry, environmental activists, and fellow colleagues on the [...] As part of its aggressive emissions reduction goals, Lafarge’s plant in Bath, Ontario, Canada, began research and testing of new biomass fuels for its kiln in the middle of 2008. Lafarge partnered with Performance Plants, Inc. to develop a string of seeds that are heat and drought resistant and that can grow on otherwise unproductive farmland. [...] One of our more frequent subjects, Calera, was back in the news recently, graduating from press releases and blogs like this one to The New York Times. Calera’s process is starting to get a lot of attention in spite of continued skepticism. The attention is more than warranted if Calera can live up to its claims of [...] Sales in India are looking up for Danish equipment supplier FLSmidth, which was hit hard by the global credit crunch (sales plummeted and shares fell nearly seventy-three percent in value). FLSmidth has been dealing in India for over a century and the country is currently its biggest market as well as being its biggest center of [...] Earth Hour was celebrated around the world on March 29. Millions of people joined the movement for a more environmentally-friendly society by switching off all lights and unplugging their appliances for one hour. However, one company has decided to take Earth Hour one step further. Roanoke Cement Company’s (a subsidiary of Titan America) Troutville, Virginia plant [...] As Lafarge has recently beaten its emission reduction goal, we have time to reflect back on one of the processes the French company used to reach their target. They developed, implemented, and successfully tested a process to re-use waste gypsum and plasterboard products gathered from South Korean construction sites. The by-products from these sites have become a [...] |
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