Tag: construction materials
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Guest Post: PVC’s Resilience and Its Foreseeable Future
In the 1960s Dustin Hoffman movie, “The Graduate,” a man hoisting a drink at a cocktail party declares to a business associate: “The future’s in plastic.” As time marched on, it turned out these words were absolutely correct, whether or not you happen to like the material, and the chemical formulations that make the material…
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$740,000 Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations
Lafarge North America, Inc., a supplier of construction materials in the United States and Canada, has agreed to resolve alleged Clean Water Act Violations to the tune of a $740,000 penalty. Alleged violations include unpermitted discharge of sto…