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Congressional Republicans want to know if the federal government is purchasing solar panels from China that were built using slave labor.
Lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general raising the alarm about the issue, which has come increasingly into the spotlight as the Biden administration pushes the U.S. toward renewable energy sources, a market that China dominates.
U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, and other Republicans on the House Oversight Committee raised questions about China’s notorious human rights violations and why U.S. taxpayers would support unethical practices and enrich one of America’s greatest rivals.
“If we are not vigilant in our efforts to ensure that no solar panels or components made with slave labor are being purchased with federal dollars from FEMA or other U.S. agencies and used on similar solar projects, it is possible the United States could be directly funding the genocide and abuse occurring in China’s Xinjiang region,” the letter said.
The letter, addressed to IG Joseph Cuffari, says that almost 85 percent of the world’s solar components are made in China.
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For example, 40 percent of polysilicon, a necessary solar panel component, comes from the Xinjiang region, which is known for its enslavement of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim group that has been forced into internment camps in China.
“As members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, we are writing today to express serious concern about the possibility of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds being used to enrich China, an adversary with a record of human rights abuses and slave labor,” the letter said.“According to the U.S. Department of State, genocide and slave labor in the […]
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