Abigail Hunter, executive director of SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, said climate law credits were indeed helping bolster domestic mineral supply chains.
“We risk undermining the president’s very clear agenda for unleashing American minerals and making sure we leverage domestic processing unintentionally by forgoing some of these important considerations in policy today,” said Hunter.
Republicans have argued the clean energy incentives are actually increasing demand for Chinese exports. They want tougher domestic sourcing requirements that companies say would just hurt nascent industries.
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