Cemex Wins Florida Expansion Case Cemex Construction Materials Florida has won the legal case that blocked its expansion into new mining territory west of Brooksville, Fla., according to the Tampa Bay Times. It comes after eight years of testimony by dozens of experts, a half dozen public meetings and hundreds of signed petitions opposing the expansion. Administrative law Judge Suzanne…
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Superior Silica Sands (SSS) announced that it will no longer pursue the construction of a silica sand processing facility in Independence, Wis. “This was a difficult but necessary decision,” said Rick Shearer, chief executive officer of parent company Emerge Energy and SSS. “Given current economic conditions affecting the frac sand industry as a whole, as well as the specific mining…
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Frac sand mining poses a little-understood threat to human health, the environment, and local economies, according to a report issued by the Civil Society Institute’s Boston Action Research (BAR) and released in cooperation with Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Midwest Environmental Advocates (MEA).
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