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Derrick Van Orden: “Our want and consumption of cobalt [is] driving these…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Van Orden Questions Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Cobalt Mining in T&I Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 04:08

And we acknowledge this and we acknowledge the fact that what's driving that, those conditions with these African children Our want and consumption of cobalt [is] driving these children, these African children, to work in slave conditions. is our want and consumption of cobalt. That's factual. Which is why we're trying to cut the use of cobalt. Right? Because really we have, in my view, we have four options. (04:08–04:17)

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Asserts that cobalt demand leads to child labor in slave conditions in Africa.

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