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Lehigh Cement will begin voluntarily testing of activated carbon injection technology, commonly used to reduce mercury at power plants, to reduce the emissions at its plant in Union Bridge Maryland. The mercury will be permanently sequestered in the final product. Lehigh believes it can meet the EPA proposal for 2013 mercury levels without negatively impacting the quality of [...] Two new studies released today will only serve to increase the public pressure on the EPA to regulate mercury emissions from cement kilns. The first, a USGS study, found mercury contamination in every fish tested from 291 streams across the country and levels in more than two thirds of them were “a concern to fish eating mammals”. [...] Here’s an exercise: Make a list of all the industries that have resisted some fundamental change in their business environment, be it regulatory or market driven, on the grounds that the result would be devastating to the business, the job market and ultimately costly for consumers. The industry was just too big, too important, and society [...] Related items on BridgeGap Engineering blog The EPA has formally proposed new regulations to limit the mercury emissions from cement kilns to 43 pounds per million tons of production. They arrived at this figure by examining the top 1/8 of kilns in the US (Recall during our earlier post on Keith Barnett’s presentation that MACT Standards, by law, [...] Here is a list of the speakers for the concurrent Environmental Workshop and our notes on what they had to say during their presentation and during the subsequent Q&A Session for conference participants: 1. AB -32: CO2 Climate Change and the Cement Industry by Michael Stevens of National Cement: |
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