Reuters’ Ernest Scheyder highlights the need for America to build more mines in order to go electric.
- In order to meet the demand for electric vehicles, the United States needs to establish more mines.
- Currently the vast majority of batteries that power EVs come from China.
- This current supply chain is a threat to our environment and economic competitiveness.
- Mining, which has become increasingly safer, can expand in the United States through a more efficient permitting process and through a more favorable business environment.
“The clash of environmental priorities underpinning the battle over Tiehm’s buckwheat – conservation vs. green energy – is a microcosm of a much larger political quandary for the new administration of President Joe Biden, who has made big promises to environmentalists as well as labor groups and others who stand to benefit by boosting mining.”
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