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New permit includes more protections for waterways, shaped by important public and stakeholder feedback.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has created a new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System "general permit" for stormwater runoff from construction sites.
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CC selects five people each year to recognize for helping to make advances in the concrete industry.
One reader clarifies the current views surround fly ash and possible EPA regulation.
Check out the top 10 tools CC readers are using to get the job done.
Recently constructed buildings are more energy efficient than their predecessors because of better insulation and tighter building envelopes that don't leak much air, in or out.
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Concrete is the most used building material in the world, but unfortunately it also leaves a major carbon dioxide footprint because of one of its main binders.
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According to the Portland Cement Association (PCA), the energy and climate legislation released in May by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) needs to do more to balance protecting the environment and maintaining U.S. jobs.
The long-term consequences of a December 2008 accident at a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) electric generating plant in Kingston, Tenn., could change the way fly ash is used or disposed of in the United States for the foreseeable future.
Read Thomas Adams', American Coal Ash Association's Executive Director, Letter to the Editor about how an EPA ruling on fly ash could affect the concrete industry.