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From the wiki (link above).
Description: California has committed to reducing greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The cement industry is at the center of this effort. Making cement is one of the dirtiest industries in the state, and California’s 11 kilns produce about 10 percent of the total US cement output each year.
If plants leave or shut down, they’ll likely be replaced by kilns in other states with less stringent environmental laws, or by international competitors like China, which already produces half the world’s cement and more carbon dioxide than the US.
Can cement plants in the Bay Area cut emissions and stay in business?
Proposed deliverables: A 1,500 word feature on the tension between California’s efforts to curtail emissions and cement plants’ desire to stay in the state and in business, plus multimedia (video, slide show, or at least lots of visualized data).
