Included are regulations on power plants, refineries, mining operations, cement plants, chemical manufacturers, and a host of other industries.
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They are mainly big polluters like steelworks, cement plants and power generators.
Between its 14 cement plants, hundreds of ready-mix concrete plants and quarries, and distribution stations in the U.S., Cemex employs about 15, 000 American workers.
Other regulations have targeted inefficient boilers and emissions from cement plants.
He also told the British newspaper that plans to construct cement plants in Brazil, Chile and Indonesia in the near future are underway.
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It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.
The San Marcos, Texas, couple will start to receive their income payments in a decade, when Mr. Staggs plans to retire from his job as a salesman for a Houston manufacturer of products for cement plants.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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Although, average cement prices in Brazil are low, and foreign giants such as Switzerland's Holderbank and France's Lafarge have recently bought cement plants in the country, Votorantim can charge more than its competitors: it has a stranglehold (critics call it a monopoly) over the business in Sao Paulo, the largest and most profitable centre.
The company is in discussions with locating plants near power plants and cement factories where the scrubbed gases can be piped into its bioreactors.
Most fund managers still like infrastructure -- power plants, telecommunications, cement, toll roads, ports and airports.
Quinn Building Products supplies cement, concrete, roof tiles and other quarry products from plants at Ballyconnell in County Cavan and Derrylin in County Fermanagh.
Effective July 1, 2011, this would essentially put EPA in the corporate boardrooms and boiler houses of electrical power plants, refineries, iron and steel mills, pulp and paper mills and cement production facilities.
Algae also offer the potential of aiding in the curbing of CO2 emissions from power stations and cement factories, and in cleaning nitrates and phosphates from agricultural runoff water and effluent from sewage plants, while simultaneously furnishing useful fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol according to how the algae are processed.
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