I am one of those people who suffer when clean air rules are delayed. I have asthma and live just a couple of miles from a cement plant. The cement plant I live near in Oklahoma is classified as a High Priority Violator of the Clean Air Act and has been for many years. So …

  Thank you to Sarah Gilliam and StarNews Online for this piece:  Doctors are busy people so when they take the time to speak out, we should pay attention. For over four years, citizens and groups have fought the permitting of a coal-burning cement plant and limestone mine proposed for the banks of the Northeast …

This post was written by Lisa Sharp, Retro Housewife Goes Green: Living in Oklahoma these past two summers has been tough. The heat wave and drought that has engulfed nearly 97 percent of the state has fueled massive wildfires, costing many their homes. The devastation doesn’t stop at Oklahoma’s borders. Those living outside of Oklahoma, …

This post was written by Sarah Gilliam, Coordinator for the Stop Titan Action Network: Never doubt the potential of a determined individual. This can certainly be said about one mom living in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Danielle Richardet and her three children–Chase, Claire and Henry–walk the beach and pick up cigarette butts, which are the most …

This piece was written by Sarah Gilliam, Coordinator for the Stop Titan Action Network: Last weekend, mothers from Kansas and Texas visited our Cape Fear region to give a self-less and invaluable glimpse into what our future could look like. These moms raise children near coal-fired cement kilns, wake up from late-night rail cars carrying hazardous …

This piece was written by Sarah Gilliam, Coordinator for the Stop Titan Action Network: At the end of this month, residents of the Cape Fear region will catch a rare glimpse into what their future could hold if one of the world’s largest cement manufacturing and strip-mining facilities is built in our coastal community. Alexandra …

This piece originally appeared at Downwinders At Risk:  Titan Cement is trying to build a huge new cement plant near Cape Fear in North Carolina. People who live there are putting up quit a fight to prevent them from doing that. In order to get these people to settle down, Titan sued a couple of local …