Cement Industry Outlines Decarbonization Plans at White House Concrete Innovation Summit
The Portland Cement Association (PCA), representing United States cement manufacturers, demonstrated the cement industry’s commitment to carbon neutrality to key executive branch decision-makers at the White House’s Concrete Innovation Summit. The PCA also outlined what steps must be taken to further reduce cement sector emissions.
PCA joined six member companies to show how the U.S. cement industry is leading the way in deploying carbon capture, introducing lower-carbon products, and using new fuels that not only reduce cement plant emissions but also offset emissions elsewhere – such as using old tires and household waste that would otherwise emit harmful gases at landfills.
“Industries across America are working to decarbonize their processes, and the U.S. cement industry has emerged as a national leader in leveraging technology to make the deep decarbonization cuts we all need for a sustainable future,” said Sean O’Neill, PCA’s senior vice president of government affairs. “There are no more off years in the race to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Every year is critical, and the cement industry is leading the way in deploying innovative technologies to get there – from carbon capture to cleaner alternative fuels.”
The cement industry is guided by PCA’s Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality, which provides a pathway for the entire cement-concrete-construction value chain to go carbon neutral by 2050.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.