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The Titan Cement Company plans to construct a coal fired cement plant and limestone mine adjacent to the Northeast Cape Fear River in New Hanover County, NC. The plant would emit toxic mercury* and the mining operation would destroy over 1,000 acres of NC wetlands.

Alarmingly, Titan has managed to negotiate their way out of a state law so that they can be granted an air pollution permit prior to the completion of their Environmental Impact Statement (a process that determines the public health and environmental impacts of their cement plant).

Help us stop Titan: Send the email below to your state legislators and urge them to support SB 699, an 18-month moratorium on the construction of cement plants in NC. During the moratorium, the General Assembly should study environmental permitting and siting issues related to cement plants, and then decide if Titan should continue its plans to build.  Click here to view a fact sheet on stopping Titan from stoptitan.org.

*In North Carolina, most women and children are already urged to avoid eating 25 types of fish due to high levels of mercury, which can lead to developmental disabilities and other adverse health effects.