The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city's desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove's wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant County and the Dallas Independent School District as defendants, is a monster -- hundreds of pages of complaints and exhibits. Ash Grove, which makes cement at its Midlothian plant using the wet-kiln met
Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvious consensus on a few points: They liked the EPA's new rules. They felt they needed them, because the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), depending on whom you ask, falls somewhere betw
Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company -- which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian -- filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities' decision to purchase cleaner, "greener" cement would cost Ash Grove big business. According to court documents I just spent a little while browsing, that suit died with a whimper on March 31, when the court granted Ash Grove
Back, for a moment, to that item about concrete-maker Ash Grove suing the city of Plano for refusing to buy its cement, made with the dirty, antiquated wet-kiln method. I do need to clarify a few things: Yes, Plano was originally sued by Ash Grove -- along with Dallas and Fort Worth and Arlington and the Dallas County Schools and Tarrant County -- back in November 2008, as Ash Grove claimed the defendants' decisions to purchase "environmentally preferable" cement was a violation of the compa
