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Cement producer Holcim US has signed on with the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge with a pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions over 10 years. The Chicago-based U.S. business of Swiss cement giant Holcim Ltd. says it is aiming to cut carbon dioxide emissions from its 13 U.S. plants by at least 25% and power them entirely with renewable energy by 2033.
Holcim has already been moving toward renewable power. The company's Paulding, Ohio, plant has three wind turbines that eliminate the emission of 9,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year, says the company. A solar field at its Hagerstown, Md., plant supplies more than 28% of that plant’s energy and cuts the equivalent emission of 14,406 tons of CO2.