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In the film Two Square Miles the historic “city” of Hudson, New York, confronts a modern Goliath: its own future. Two Square Miles tracks the conflicts that unfold as a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to reshape the small community on the banks of the Hudson River. Hudson’s colorful and passionate citizens fight to save [...]
Earlier this month, Titan and other limestone mine operators in Miami/Dade County successfully appealed a lower court ruling that had halted the company’s mining activities in Florida for 10 months due to suspected benzene contamination of the underlying Biscayne Aquifer–the primary water source for Miami. County investigators suspected the benzene–a known carcinogen released from [...]
After a few weeks of non-coverage of the environmental and health impacts of a massive cement plant proposed for Castle Hayne, the Star-News has begun digging deeper, publishing a few stories last week on the downside of cement manufacturing and culminating with a solid editorial on the subject in Sunday’s paper (5/25). Though hardly a [...]
New Hanover County’s air and watershed are already overburdened with pollutants, though few are visible to the naked eye. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest Toxic Release Inventory, which tracks emissions of six major pollutants, New Hanover has the highest emissions of carbon monoxide and chromium compounds of any county in the state; the [...]
Cement is a major component of concrete, but unlike the ready-mix concrete plants that are scattered about the state, there are currently no cement plants in North Carolina. Cement plants are large industrial facilities that burn vast quantities of coal, as well as fuel oil, natural gas–even old tires–to fire giant kilns to temperatures as [...]
There is no way to predict the associated drift of the plume or the resulting pollution impact zone of a cement plant. Currently three elementary schools are within the 5-mile danger zone and a fourth is planned in the area in the near future. In Wilmington alone, there are 27 elementary schools in the 10-mile [...]
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