Reduce Regulatory Burden on Cement Industry
Cement is vital to this nation’s infrastructure, the housing industry, and manufacturing and therefore to the economy and jobs, something high profile politicians and federal agency spokesmen continually say they are trying to protect and even expand. Therefore, it’s important that their words are not countered by their actions, and that we hold them accountable.
In the case of cement production, the EPA promulgated new air pollutant standards for the industry in late 2010. These Cement MACT (maximum achievable control technology) regulations call for reductions of 97 percent in acid gases, 92 percent in mercury, 83 percent in total hydrocarbons, 92 percent in particulate matter, 78 percent in sulfur dioxide, and 5 percent in nitrogen oxides, to be implemented by 2013.
