The United States has just received a seismic jolt to its aluminium backbone. A toxic disaster has been quietly brewing in Gramercy, Louisiana — home to Atalco, the country’s last operating alumina refinery — and has now erupted into a full-blown environmental and regulatory crisis. It’s a case of corporate concealment, environmental injustice, and glaring regulatory inertia. But more importantly, it’s a flashing red warning for America’s aluminium security.
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