What's Really Shocking

CEMEX, Inc. claims it is "shocked" that Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action plans to take the company to court in 60 days for numerous violations of the Clean Air Act. As the Boulder Daily Camera stated, this claim "strains credulity."

Since 1979, the Lyons cement plant has failed to install air pollution controls, despite steady increases in pollution. Just like when you renovate your old house, you have to make sure it comes up to code. Unfortunately, despite many renovations at the Lyons cement plant, it has yet to come up to code.

For most of all of us, this is the shocking part. That a multinational cement company making billions every year would be so disorganized and inattentive that 30 years of increased air pollution would simply be overlooked.