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Are Holcim, Cemex, Lafarge or Heidelbergcement in your top 20?
25 January 2009
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Stimulus No Help For Cemex and Vulcan?
29 December 2008
Financial markets are likely overly optimistic about the effects an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will have on companies that have links to public works projects, according to an analyst note released Monday.
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Top cement kiln polluters
03 September 2008
Environmental groups have fought in court to compel EPA to comply with the Clean Air Act requirements to address mercury emissions and the current Administration has fought equally as hard against compliance.
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Consolidation- The name of the game today
12 April 2007
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EU seeks more private lawsuits against price-fixers
08 March 2007
European Union regulators plan to promote more private lawsuits against price-fixers while avoiding the creation of a legal culture similar to the US, which is seen as encouraging frivolous lawsuits, the EU's top competition chief said.
Triple damages and certain kinds of class-action suits that allow plaintiffs to opt out „are simply not compatible with our European traditions,” EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a speech today at a conference in Brussels. The European Commission, the EU's regulatory arm in Brussels, is working on plans to encourage victims of illegal monopolie
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States sue EPA over cement plant pollution
25 February 2007
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Concrete Proposal to Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions
31 January 2007
The making of cement accounts for up to 10 percent of the world's total emissions of carbon dioxide, a key gas involved in global warming. Now scientists and engineers are developing a cleaner way to manufacture cement.
The announcement comes during a week in which scientists around the planet are awaiting a global warming report due to be announced Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Shortage of engineers costs local agencies time, money.
20 November 2006
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Vietnam's Cement Producers Discuss Ways To Stabilise Market
07 November 2006
HANOI, - The Vietnamese cement market was seeing good signals, but also many shortcomings, the Ministry of Construction said following a meeting with cement companies from the south.
The meeting was held to discuss plans to sell cement, and measures to stabilise the cement market in the southern region in the fourth quarter.
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Polluters to tackle energy-intensive industries
02 November 2006
NEW DELHI - An alliance of the world's biggest polluters is working together to make the most energy-intensive sectors such as coal, cement and steel manufacturing more efficient, India said on Wednesday.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership -- made up of India, China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Australia -- favours a voluntary approach to reducing emissions instead following the Kyoto model of setting specific targets.
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