Saturday, April 21, 2001

       Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

       Alcoa chief thinks 'green'

       Alcoa Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alain Belda told shareholders in
       Pittsburgh yesterday that the company had set ambitious environmental goals,
       including reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses by 25 percent by 2010 and
       cutting the amount of waste it sends to landfills by 50 percent by 2007. He
       outlined a number of other objectives designed to make Alcoa the best
        company in the world. "This is a quest for perfection," Belda said.