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** How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa is undermining a rare forest to fuel its global aluminum empire ([link removed])
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“The forest has been taken to its knees,” an Australian botanist said ([link removed]) .


** Alcoa's Australian refineries drove flight from two towns, and its waste threatens a third ([link removed])
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Alcoa’s Australian refineries have driven the decline of two towns ([link removed]) and may have coated their surroundings with dust that residents say tested positive for radioactive elements thorium and uranium.

Alcoa said there’s no proof the dust in the community is linked to the company’s 150-foot mounds of bauxite residue. Dust tests by a local advocacy group found Alcoa’s dust signature 12 miles from one refinery, near a population center of 100,000 people ([link removed]) .

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