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Concrete, Cement, and Aggregates Manufacturing

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    As Ash Grove, Dallas Settle Cement Suit, Clean-Air Group Shouts, "Sweetheart Deal!"

    ​It's been close to two years since we last looked at Ash Grove's federal lawsuit, filed in the fall of '08, in which the cement-maker whined that Dallas's refusal to buy its dirty, wet-kiln-made concrete was a violation of the state's competitive bidding laws. Dallas, claiming its thanks-but-no-t ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2009

    Is the Reconquista Spreading to England?

    ​It's been close to two years since we last looked at Ash Grove's federal lawsuit, filed in the fall of '08, in which the cement-maker whined that Dallas's refusal to buy its dirty, wet-kiln-made concrete was a violation of the state's competitive bidding laws. Dallas, claiming its thanks-but-no-t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

    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 obvi ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Green Cement Plants Could Mean Cleaner Air and Lower Costs

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Cementing a Move to Dallas

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2006

    Concrete: In the Bad-Air Mix

    Economic pressure from local cities helps clean up smoky kilns

  • News

    November 20, 1997

    Bye, bye Bethel

    The newest town in Texas is a town no more

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Ill Wind Blowing

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

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