SEC's conflict minerals vote comes under fire

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Campaigners slam new regulations for allowing firms to declare they do not know where controversial minerals were sourced from

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's vote last week to require public companies to disclose whether they use conflict minerals from the war-stricken Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring...

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