Just when Baltimore County highway officials thought they were safe from the nightmare of ice, snow, freezing rain and complaints about unplowed streets, along comes the slag menace — 40,000 tons of ...

The use of coal slag in abrasive blasting at Newport News Shipbuilding is more widespread than originally reported. The slag, a gritty coal-waste byproduct, contains trace amounts of beryllium, a ...

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

Developed countries like Japan, USA have taken lead in making fertilisers as slag silicate fertiliser, by-produced lime fertiliser, slag phosphate fertiliser or iron matter of special fertiliser using ...

Concerns are being raised about the health impact of a byproduct from the steel-making process being used on gravel roads in eastern Iowa. Muscatine County leaders have suspended the use of steel ...

The steel slag drawn from furnaces of steel mills will be turned to eco-friendly use for land-filling in road construction and for construction of other projects, sources said. In what is seen as a ...

A rocky, rust-colored slag often spread on icy streets in Palmerton and throughout the Lehigh Valley has high levels of lead that could endanger health, says a Palmerton environmental group. Palmerton ...

Human activity has significantly altered the earth’s landscape — so much so that many scientists have said the planet began a new geological chapter called the Anthropocene era. Many of these changes ...