Lehigh Cement Company’s Union Bridge Plant is aiming to reduce its environmental impact in the area of consumption as well as emissions.  Rather than being content to implement technology that will remove a higher percentage of pollutants from the emitted air, the Union Bridge plant is also looking at alternative fuels – engineered fuel in particular.  At one [...]

Although some cement companies are prepared and able to meet the new emissions standards by the 2013 deadline, many will be forced to lay off workers, reduce production, or even close down entirely.  In fact, according to Keith Williams, managing environmental process engineer for Buzzi Unicem USA in Stockertown, 20% of U.S. plants will go out [...]

As society has become increasingly aware of the damaging effects of toxic emissions on the environment and public health, various methods have been employed to limit industries’ impact.  While in the United States the EPA simply sets standards that must be met by all companies, the European Union establishes a set number of emissions allowances that [...]

As time continues to tick by and July 2013 approaches, cement companies like Lehigh Cement are starting to feel the pressure of the new EPA emissions standards – standards they must meet by that date.  Lehigh’s Glenn Falls plant, however, refuses to simply stand by.  While still in the process of arriving at a final number, [...]

All eyes, and feet, are on Calera’s first project—a four hundred foot long sidewalk in Santa Cruz, California.  Calera has been repeatedly debated within this blog forum as they’ve tried to perfect a way to use greenhouse gas emissions  from power or cement plants to make cement/cement additives.  This project is being coordinated with the Santa Cruz [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]