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We had questions about the environmental impact of Pittsburgh-based Alcoa’s mining. So we followed the story... all the way to Australia. Read more about these groundbreaking stories below, and support journalism that holds power accountable with a matched donation today.

Alcoa mines australia's forest

PublicSource sent two reporters more than 11,000 miles to investigate how a Pittsburgh company, Alcoa, is threatening a rare ecosystem and may be causing illness and economic issues for residents of Western Australia.

Read the three-part series and read about how and why our team set its sights so far away from Pittsburgh.

How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa is undermining a rare forest to fuel its global aluminum empire

Alcoa’s Australian refineries drove flight from two towns, and its waste threatens a third

Will Australia revisit the deal that led a Pittsburgh firm to depend on the ore beneath its trees?

Why — and how — journalists from a nonprofit newsroom in Pittsburgh went to Australia

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