Toxic water. Destroyed crops. Displaced families.
In the DRC’s cobalt & copper belt — vital to the global energy transition — communities are paying the price.
In 2024, Mongabay investigated, naming polluters ignoring cleanup obligations. Months later, the gov’t hit some with a record multi-billion-dollar tax bill.
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After Mongabay reveals the cost of cobalt and copper mining, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government acts - Environmental Journalism and Education
In May 2024, Mongabay published a bilingual multimedia investigation, originally reported in French, examining unchecked pollution and human rights violations linked to mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) copper and cobalt be…Environmental Journalism and Education
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