(Source: NBC News, December 15, 2019)
NEW YORK — The public transit systems in three major U.S. cities are seeking answers from the company manufacturing their new train cars after an NBC News investigation found it uses materials containing minerals mined by children in Africa. The yearlong NBC News investigation revealed that mica mined in Madagascar by children as young as 4 winds up in millions of American products, including train cars produced by the Chinese rail manufacturer CRRC.
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