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Afghan People Suffering Under Powerful Elite Tied To Karzai, U.S.

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Abdul Hussain Fahim, Afghanistan War, Karkar, Cement, Cronyism, Afghanistan, Ghori, Mahmoud Karzai, Aic, Afghan Mining, Iran, Hamid Karzai, World News

Shovel-wielding miners in rags and plastic shoes, some with the protruding ribs and work-ravaged pallor of labor camp prisoners, toil deep inside this...

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Just Blame the Block Company...

Mike Spicer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cement, Bp, Culpable, Gulf Oil Spill, Lawsuit, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Business News
Mike Spicer

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BP's Internal Report Doesn't Hold Up Under Academy Scrutiny

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cement, White House Oil Spill Commission, Bp, Bop, National Academy of Engineering, Gulf of Mexico, Macondo, Halliburton, Blowout, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, mc252, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

As opposed to the National Academy Engineering panel, the president's panel continues to focus on investigating what happened environmentally after the blowout as opposed to seeking out the actual causes of the blowout.

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If You and I Have to Clean Up Our Garbage, Shouldn't Polluters Who Trash Our Air?

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Soot, Cement, Smog, Epa, Mercury, Pollution, Air Pollution, E. Coli, Clean Air Act, Green News
Peter Lehner

Recently, the EPA announced that cement companies will have to clean up high levels of mercury, soot, and smog coming from their plants. Like most EPA efforts, this initiative drew industry ire.

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BP Oil Spill Video To Show 'Top Kill' Plug Attempt: Company Bows To Pressure, Agrees To Show Footage

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Ed Markey, Cement, Video, BP Oil Spill, White House, Oil Spill, Video Feed, Mud, Obama, Top Kill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- BP has agreed at the request of the Obama administration to show video of the "top kill" designed to choke off the oil spill in the...

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Can Grass Roots Organizations Take On a Corporate Giant?

Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ideal Cement, Stop TItan, Wilmington NC, Kayne Darrell, Carolinas Cement Company, Titan America, Sierra Club, Castle Hayne NC, Mike Easley, Cement, Mercury Poisoning, Citizens Against Titan, Green News
Yuna Shin

New Hanover County has become the battleground for a war between Titan America, which wants to operate a major cement plant in the area, and local citizens' groups who are opposed to the plant.

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Focus: Should it be on Copenhagen or Calera?

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Netherlands, Australia, Cement, Green Cement, Copenhagen 2009, Brent Constantz, Saudi Arabia, Department of Energy, Scientific American, Masdar City, Engineering News-Record, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Calera, Power-Gen, California, Green News
Alexia Parks

Today's most interesting Climate Change conversation may not be taking place in policy discussions in Copenhagen, but at the Power-Gen International conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Cement Industry: Mercury And Toxins Must Stay!

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mercury, Cement, Pollution, Toxins, Environment, Green Politics, Epa, Green News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A group representing the U.S. cement industry says a federal government plan for cutting emissions of mercury and other a...

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EPA Agrees To Regulate Mercury From Cement Plants

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cement, Mercury, Water, Water Pollutants, Pollution, Epa, Portland Oregon, Green News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Federal regulators have settled a lawsuit with environmental activists and nine states over standards for mercury emissio...

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New Cement Absorbs More CO2 Than Production Emits

guardian.co.uk | Alok Jha, Green Technology Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cement, Carbon Emissions, Environment, Co2, Pollution, Eco-Cement, Novacem, Portland Oregon, Green News

Standard cement, also known as Portland cement, is made by heating limestone or clay to around 1,500C. The processing of the ingredients releases 0.8 ...

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