Cement, the gray powder that quietly underpins modern life, has finally met its limits. After decades in which ever more ...

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 ...

For every 1,000 kilograms of cement the world produces, 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide are dumped into the atmosphere. If that doesn’t sound like a lot, consider that last year the world made about 4 ...

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 ...

Cement built the modern world, but it also quietly helped heat the planet. As researchers race to cut emissions from ...

Demolition may be inevitable for at least some of the landmark cement kilns that stand along the Lehigh River as monuments to Lehigh County’s industrial history Demolition may be inevitable for at ...

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 ...

Environmentalists are sounding the alarm on a little known polluter: cement kilns. Some of these giant ovens used to cook rock to make cement are known to emit mercury. The Environmental Protection ...

Among the first 60 commenters at yesterday’s public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvious consensus on a few ...

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Grass-roots activists are claiming victory after Texas Industries announced that it will close all four of its wet-process cement kilns in Midlothian permanently. TXI made the announcement in a ...