Alcoa pays Australian feds $36 million for ‘unlawful’ forest clearing

Mongabay
Feb 19, 2026, 11:58 am288 ptsTop
Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for “unlawfully” clearing tracts of endangered forest without approvals between 2019 and 2025. The metals giant began mining bauxite — the raw ingredient for aluminum — from beneath Australia’s…

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