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Arizona Rural Grassroots Organizers Take on Industrial Developers, Aided by Urban Allies

When residents of Benson, Arizona, began organizing against an aluminum recycling plant, a Tucson group offered to help.

By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder

Local beef rancher Ashlyn Bloom speaks against the aluminum recycling plant proposed by Aluminum Dynamics, Inc. at a Sept. 8 Benson City Council meeting. Credit: Courtesy of Ashlyn Bloom
George Walley, a Noongar elder, sits at the edge of an Alcoa mine site near Jarrahdale in Western Australia on March 24. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa Is Undermining a Rare Forest To Fuel Its Global Aluminum Empire

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Engineers walk through Emirates Global Aluminum’s Al Taweelah smelter in the United Arab Emirates. Credit: Emirates Global Aluminum

Global Aluminum Producer Announces $4 Billion Smelter for Wind-Rich Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

“Aluminum has a really big and positive role to play in the shift to clean energy and transportation and in creating a strong U.S. industry and jobs. But to make good on that promise, aluminum producers really need to reduce pollution and start modernizing and operating under updated rules so that there's less harm to people, the environment and the climate.” —Nadia Steinzor, Environmental Integrity Project. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna

Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases

By Phil McKenna, and Lili Pike, Grid China Reporter

Why American Aluminum Plants Emit Far More Climate Pollution Than Some of Their Counterparts Abroad

By Phil McKenna

Can being placed in can bank in the United Kingdom. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Want to Help Reduce PFC Emissions? Recycle Those Cans

By Phil McKenna

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