The demand for raw materials for solar panels and batteries is projected to skyrocket over the next few years as the clean energy revolution takes hold. The market for cobalt, in particular ...

March 5 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in ...

Apple and other major tech companies don't have to compensate victims of forced child labor that provided cobalt for the lithium ... in that supply chain. We hold that it does not," judges wrote.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit that sought to hold Apple, Google, Tesla and other major tech companies liable for their alleged use of child labor to mine cobalt in the ...

Activists are concerned that high-profile cobalt consumer Tesla isn't doing enough to demand that its cobalt be mined ethically without the use of child or forced labor. The EV company says it is ...

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Tesla and others all insist that they hold cobalt ... suppliers get their cobalt - tell a different story. Scroll down for video Barefoot children covered in ...

Cobalt—deemed "critical ... and barely managed to hold the sieve above water while Kisangi scooped the pebbles out by hand and placed them in a pile. The children would repeat this arduous ...

Charities are warning that without government support for the African country’s artisanal mining sector, private investment ...

He estimates that 70% of this cobalt (half the world’s entire supply) involves some measure of child labor, while much of the rest involves near-slave labor. The DRC’s once-verdant ...