09/17/2023

#US ignoring #abuses in #DRC to secure minerals for #electricvehicles

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-15-us-ignoring-abuses-drc-secure-metals-evs.html

The U.S. is becoming heavily reliant on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – shunned worldwide for its lax child labor policies and other abusive working conditions in its mines – as it races to secure supplies of metals to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Known as the world’s “king of cobalt,” […]

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