Sources: National Labor Relations Board; CP staff
Administrative Law Judge Arthur Amchan dismissed an NLRB General Counsel complaint alleging that Irving Materials (IMI South) violated the National Labor Relations Act during a recent shift of mixer maintenance from a Louisville, Ky., plant to a new shop across the Ohio River in New Albany, Ind.
Read MoreSources: CP staff; Environmental Protection Agency; Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Ill.
After 28 months of rulemaking, court action, and meetings with industry officials, the EPA issued its Final Emissions Limits for Portland Cement Manufacturing, citing prospective mercury, hydrochloric acid, particulate matter and total hydrocarbon level reductions from 82–93 percent against agency thresholds leading into 2010.
Read MoreSources: Prairie Material, Bridgeview, Ill.; CP staff
Richard Olsen, president of Great Lakes market ready mixed concrete and aggregate mainstay Prairie Material, pegs five growth areas this year in his current outlook report, The Source:
Source: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.
NRMCA Senior National Resources Director, Mid Atlantic, Phil Kresge will present a webinar on roller compacted concrete, January 8 or March 5, 11 a.m.-noon EST, introducing specifiers and practitioners to the asphalt and conventional concrete pavement alternative.
Read MoreSource: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
In tandem with promotion of the Disaster Savings and Resilient Construction Act (see companion item), a U.S. House bill it authored, NRMCA is acknowledging Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for introducing the complementary Safe Building Code Incentive Act in the Senate.
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