Lone Star Industries, Clean Air Act Violations, Indiana 2024

Lone Star Industries facility

Lone Star Industries Inc, a subsidiary of Italian company Buzzi Unicem, has been accused of violating the Clean Air Act at its cement manufacturing facility in Greencastle, Indiana.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Indiana Department of Environmental Management filed a complaint against Lone Star Industries, alleging numerous, longstanding Clean Air Act violations at the Greencastle plant that date from 2010 to the present. The violations involved opacity in emissions that exceeded state and federal limits, posing serious health risks to surrounding communities.

Lone Star Industries also allegedly violated CAA requirements that limit emissions of other hazardous air pollutants from the burning of hazardous wastes used to heat its cement kilns.

The settlement requires Lone Star Industries to upgrade and optimize pollution control equipment and procedures at its Greencastle facility, reducing emissions of particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and other hazardous air pollutants.

The company will pay $729,000 in civil penalties, split equally between the United States and the State of Indiana, and will undertake additional measures to mitigate past violations of CAA opacity limits.

The measures in the consent decree are estimated to reduce emissions of particulate matter by 2.44 tons per year, carbon monoxide emissions by 46.39 tons per year, and other hazardous air pollutants by 1.69 tons per year. Lone Star Industries will spend approximately $1.4 million to bring its facility into compliance and mitigate past harm.

The settlement was lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and is subject to a 30-day public comment period and final court approval.

Lone Star Industries is a subsidiary of Italian company Buzzi Unicem, and the facility is located in Greencastle, Indiana.

Defendant/respondent: Lone Star Industries Inc

Exact criminal charges: Clean Air Act violations

City and state: Greencastle, Indiana

Exact date: No specific date mentioned in the source. However, the violations date from 2010 to the present.

Sentence or outcome: $729,000 in civil penalties, upgrade and optimization of pollution control equipment and procedures, and additional measures to mitigate past violations of CAA opacity limits.

Dollar amounts: $729,000 in civil penalties and $1.4 million to bring the facility into compliance.

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