Don't Mind That Toxic Red Dust Everywhere, Says Company That Produces It 4.68K Jeff Neumann 10/22/10 04:21AM Filed to: Health Health Environment Red sludge Business Alumina Texas Poison Ap pic Point Comfort, Texas is home to an Alcoa alumina plant, which spews clouds of red dust into the air, coating residents' clothes and and eating the paint off their cars. But don't worry because it's not harmful, says Alcoa. [AP]