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Cement Kiln Emissions Challenge

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Washington, DC

Press Releases

Court Rejects Attempt to Kill Cement Plant Rule

Friday, December 9, 2011

House Votes to Increase Mercury Pollution, Premature Death and Disease

Thursday, October 6, 2011

EPA Estimates Clean Air Act Will Gain $2 Trillion in Health Benefits by 2020

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Attorneys General Oppose Effort to Kill Cement Kiln Rules

Monday, February 14, 2011

Files

How I Met the President by Tommy Allred

(Reference)

Attorneys General Oppose Effort to Kill Cement Kiln Rules

(Letter)

Cement Kiln Rule 2010

(Legal Document)

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Op-Ed

(Reference)

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Cement kiln in Midlothian, TX. (Photo: Samantha Bornhorst.)

This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's continued refusal to set mercury emissions standards for cement kilns, in violation of the Clean Air Act.

The EPA estimates that more than one hundred cement kilns emit over 23,000 pounds of mercury each year.

Desert Citizens Against Pollution

Downwinders at Risk

Friends of Hudson

Huron Environmental Activist League (HEAL)

Montanans Against Toxic Burning

James Pew

Staff:
James Pew

Clients:
Desert Citizens Against Pollution
Downwinders at Risk
Friends of Hudson
Huron Environmental Activist League (HEAL)
Montanans Against Toxic Burning

Last Updated: February 14, 2011
Case Number # 3438

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