Plastic waste, one of the most prevalent forms of global waste, is being increasingly utilized as a key feedstock in cement kilns. This shift helps cement producers tackle the plastic waste crisis ...

An environmental consultant from Washington, D.C., last night said he didn’t make the trip to the Lehigh Valley to tell residents burning hazardous waste in cement kilns is unsafe. “I’m going to go ...

Cement kilns in Maryland and across the country emit thousands of pounds of mercury into the air and remain unchecked by federal regulators, according to a new report from an environmental watchdog ...

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 ...

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 ...

Work will begin next month to rehabilitate one of the nine deteriorating cement kilns that stand along the Lehigh River in Lehigh County, but the future remains uncertain for the other eight. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it would not require cement manufacturers -- including the nation’s largest emitter, in Tehachapi, Calif. -- to ...

SOME two and a half million tyres could be burned in the new kiln at Irish Cement's Platin plant - so when is an incinerator not an incinerator? That was the question Drogheda Borough Councillors ...