CNN Wrongly Blames Electric Cars for Unethical Cobalt Mining

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By Ben JerveyMay 2, 2018, 12:16 pm162 pts
This week, CNN published a startling multimedia report on cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The investigation revealed troubling conditions in so-called “artisanal” cobalt mines, where hand mining operations are carried out with a combination of unsafe working conditions and child labor. As…

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