{"id":568628,"date":"2010-05-18T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:46:17","slug":"why-ab32-goes-after-the-cement-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568628","title":{"rendered":"Why AB32 Goes After the Cement Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/05\/cement_fueled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9898\" title=\"cement_fueled\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/cement_fueled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhile a Wyoming coal plant and one Chevron refinery are the largest pollution sources for California, the three industries that together account for 40% of California&#8217;s GHG emissions include   electric utilities, oil refineries and cement manufacturers &#8211; so these are the three industries most impacted by California&#8217;s climate legislation, AB32, which will begin next year.<\/p>\n<p>California is the largest cement-producing state in the  U.S., accounting for between 10% and 15% of U.S. cement production and  cement industry employment with about 2,000 workers between 31 cement facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil energy that it takes to heat the cement mix  up to 2,642 degrees Fahrenheit is why cement production has  such high carbon dioxide emissions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/18\/why-ab32-goes-after-the-cement-industry\/#more-9815\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a Wyoming coal plant and one Chevron refinery are the largest pollution sources for California, the three industries that together account for 40% of California&#8217;s GHG emissions include electric utilities, oil refineries and cement manufacturers &#8211; so these are the three industries most impacted by California&#8217;s climate legislation, AB32, which will begin next year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}