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Bad Air in a Big Canyon

One company’s plans to build a new cement plant upwind of the Grand Canyon comes at a time when officials are paying more and more attention to the pollution and gases cement plants emit.

Cement plants are big air polluters and the Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of tightening its regulations on plant emissions. These new rules are coming just as cement giant Cemex wants to build a new plant in Arizona that would create jobs but also potentially cloud the view of the Grand Canyon. Arizona Public Radio’s Laurel Morales reports.