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The Only Group Representing the US at an International Cement Conference is...
In recognition of its two-decade leadership on the issue, Downwinders at Risk is being asked to send a representative to an international conference on cement industry sustainability issues in...
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Downwind in Switzerland: “Do you carry responsibly-sourced concrete?”
(Half of these people represent industry. Half are environmentalists. Can't tell which ones? That's a good thing.) Should a bag of concrete be like an organic banana or a new chair made out of...
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We Did It: After 15-Years of Persistent Organizing, Citizens Finally See...
Holcim is the first cement plant in the nation to voluntarily install an industrial catalytic converter called SCR on its smokestack, significantly cutting smog-forming air pollution in DFW. But...
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Downwinders Spotlighted as part of Goldman Prize Celebration
Economics and Physics has the Nobel. Journalism has the Pulitzer. Environmentalists have the Goldman. The Goldman Prize is the world’s largest award honoring grassroots environmental activists. It’s...
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HEFTY! HEFTY! HEFTY! is TOXIC! TOXIC! TOXIC!
Anti-Litter Group “Keep America Beautiful” Teams-Up with Dow and Hefty to Burn Plastic Bags Full of Plastic Garbage in Cement Kilns And They Want To Do It Here… We’ve been warning you for a while...
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Why Cement Kilns are Insatiable. And Why You Care.
Dow, Hefty and Keep America Clean’s proposal to burn plastics via bright orange “energy bags” in cement kilns is new but the idea of using kilns as industrial kitchen dispose-alls is not. DFW has been...
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Mysterious Catastrophic Air Pollution Episode is Why DFW Needs its Own Air...
Not quite two weeks ago, on Thursday October 19th, something happened to throw local air quality conditions into the red zone for most of the day. There was a inexplicable smokey haze extending along...
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Meet Our New Campaign Targeting Toxic Particulate Matter: “NO SAFE LEVEL”
Toxic Particulate Matter – “PM” – is the New Lead PM is the scientific name for industrial soot. It comes from burning things. Wood. Gasoline. Diesel. Coal. Waste. Everything that depends on on...
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DFW Holcim Cement Plant Seeks to Burn 100% Petroleum Coke
Increases Predicted in Air Pollution, including 100 more tons of PM a Year Holcim Cement’s Midlothian cement plant has requested a permit application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality...
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LafargeHolcim is a “Conscientious Corporate Citizen” Everywhere But Texas
In Europe, LafargeHolcim is a multinational cement manufacturer based in Switzerland and France – two countries on the cutting edge of climate crisis planning and members of the progressive European...
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