Home

The Center for Public Integrity

Home

About the Center

ICIJ

Donate

Investigations by email

Politics

Accountability

Health

Environment

National Security

Juvenile Justice

Ash Grove Cement Company - news and investigations

Town divided over major employer's permission to pollute the air

By Howard Berkes and Sarah Harris

November 10, 2011

Community in turmoil over cement plant's permission to exceed emissions of hazardous waste incinerators — all perfectly legal

Related to this story

Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

December 16, 2011

EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution

By Corbin Hiar

January 9, 2012

Community coated in black mist — until citizens fought back

By Ronnie Greene and Howard Berkes

November 7, 2011

In polluted Pennsylvania suburb, a Republican takes on state regulators

By Jim Morris

November 15, 2011

Powered by Calais

Popular from the Center

Benefit payment change hurts poor

Majority of Supreme Court members millionaires

Secret court judge attended expenses-paid terrorism seminar

Advertisement

Donate

  • Make a donation online

  • Make a donation by mail

  • Make a contribution by fax or phone

  • Make a gift of stock

  • Rated 4-stars on Charity Navigator

Subscribe to our Watchdog email newsletter to get the best stories from across the Center delivered once or twice a week.

What the Center investigates

About the Center

Center in the News

  • Politics

    • Consider the Source
    • Primary Source
    • Who Can Vote?
    • Raw Deal
    • Congress
    • The White House
    • Elections

  • Accountability

    • Secrecy for Sale
    • Skin and Bone
    • State Integrity Investigation
    • Takings Initiatives Accountability Project
    • Finance
    • Education
    • The Truth Left Behind
    • Global Muckraking
    • ICIJ Member Stories
    • Harmful Error
    • Lobby Watch
    • Campaign Consultants
    • Well Connected
    • Waste, Fraud and Abuse

  • Health

    • Medicare
    • Mystery in the Fields
    • Dollars and Dentists
    • Public Health
    • Wendell Potter
    • Island of the Widows
    • Pushing Prescriptions
    • Genetics

  • Environment

    • Hard Labor
    • Pollution
    • Energy
    • Health and Safety
    • Climate
    • Natural Resources

  • National Security

    • The Gift Economy
    • Up in Arms
    • Windfalls of War
    • The Military
    • Homeland Security
    • Intelligence

  • Juvenile Justice

    • About The Center for Public Integrity

    • Our Organization

    • Our People

    • Our Work

    • About the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

    • Advertise

    • Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

    • Contact

      • Justice for sale in state supreme court elections?

      • Reform pushed to G-8 meeting agenda after ICIJ's offshore tax haven investigation

      • Award-winning Center series looks at toxic, sometimes hidden chemical releases

      • Without better laws, "dark money" groups will prosper in 2014 state races

      • ICIJ tax havens investigation pushes countries to launch investigations

      • Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and Australia announce new international tax haven investigation

      • Thank you for your support

      • More impact from our watchdog work

    Copyright 2013 The Center for Public Integrity

    Supported by: