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In order to facilitate electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor in its mines, many of which are controlled by Chinese interests, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are jointly committing $23 million in taxpayer funds to U.S. firms and other mining companies to integrate local Congolese operations and “artisanal” mines into their supply chains, as well as to improve labor standards for miners in the DRC, which are essentially nonexistent in most cases, according to the WSJ. Chinese-controlled interests dominate the DRC’s cobalt industry, refining about 75% of the global cobalt supply and manufacturing approximately 70% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, which are cobalt-intensive products that power EVs.
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I gotz a question ....what's a Congolese artisanal cobalt mine?
Are the whips and machetes handcrafted ?Ya know for when ya gotta whip or chop those Lil child bastards for napping on the job
Also whats a neo pronoun
Artisanal mines roflmao are you leftist retards out of your minds
That would be a yes
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are jointly committing $23 million in taxpayer funds to U.S. firms and other mining companies to integrate local Congolese operations and “artisanal” mines into their supply chains, as well as to improve labor standards for miners in the DRC, which are essentially nonexistent in most cases, according to the WSJ. Chinese-controlled interests dominate the DRC’s cobalt industry, refining about 75% of the global cobalt supply and manufacturing approximately 70% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, which are cobalt-intensive products that power EVs.

US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions
the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor in …

I gotz a question ....what's a Congolese artisanal cobalt mine?
Are the whips and machetes handcrafted ?Ya know for when ya gotta whip or chop those Lil child bastards for napping on the job
Also whats a neo pronoun
Artisanal mines roflmao are you leftist retards out of your minds
That would be a yes