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Short-Circuiting Environmental Protections; The Cleanroom: How Clean? David J. Tenenbaum Abstract
Computer chip production is shifting to Asian-Pacific countries in part due to more favorable tax rates and a surging demand for chips in the region. Environmental and worker health advocates allege that this move is also motivated by more lenient regulatory structures in these countries and point to pollution problems similar to those that occurred in Silicon Valley in the United States. Although there are few regulations to prevent these problems even at the international level, semiconductor companies are taking steps to make their processes safer and less threatening to the environment.
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