\u201cCalifornia Cement Industry: Failing the Climate Challenge,\u201d was commissioned by Sierra Club California, the state-level advocacy arm of Sierra Club, and authored by Global Efficiency Intelligence, an international energy and climate technology consulting firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cCement production is responsible for five percent of global carbon pollution,\u201d said Kathryn Phillips, Director of Sierra Club California. \u201cCalifornia\u2019s cement factories should be among the cleanest in the world, not the dirtiest. We can and must do better.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis report is extremely troubling,\u201d said Assemblymember Rob Bonta, (D-Oakland). \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve known about the carbon impact of the cement industry for many years, but we didn\u2019t realize the scale of the problem in California. Inaction is not an option \u2013 and thankfully there are steps we can and will take to address this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The production of cement, which is a key ingredient in many forms of concrete, requires the burning of limestone \u2014 an energy-intensive process that produces carbon emissions through the burning of fuels like coal and petroleum products. The ensuing chemical conversion of limestone to \u201cclinker,\u201d the active ingredient in cement, also results in large amounts of \u201cprocess emissions\u201d of carbon dioxide. Taken together, cement production is one of the most polluting industrial processes on earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of things the cement industry can do to reduce its energy and process emissions, but few, if any, of California\u2019s cement factories have undertaken any of these measures,\u201d said Ali Hasanbeigi, the principal author of the report and CEO at Global Efficiency Intelligence. \u201cThis study benchmarked California\u2019s cement factories against their peers, and the results are not flattering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cCalifornia Cement Industry: Failing the Climate Challenge,\u201d was commissioned by Sierra Club California, the state-level advocacy arm of Sierra Club, and authored by Global Efficiency Intelligence, an international energy and climate technology consulting firm. \u201cCement production is responsible for five percent of global carbon pollution,\u201d said Kathryn Phillips, Director of Sierra Club California. \u201cCalifornia\u2019s cement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14441,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"portfolio":[59],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n