Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric truck spews no nasty tailpipe gases into the air, meaning it should help create a healthier environment for your family and your local community. But mining the aluminum used in that truck is allegedly causing serious health problems for another community thousands of miles away in Brazil.
Now a class-action lawsuit representing 11,000 people living near the Hydro Alunorte refinery in Barcarena hopes to hold the plant and its owners accountable for the consequences of the toxic waste the plaintiffs say is contaminating the region’s water supply. The suit alleges that the refinery – the world’s biggest outside China, according to the company’s website – has released trace amounts of aluminum and other metals into the local environment leading to people developing various illnesses including cancers and birth defects.
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