Abigail Hunter, executive director of the SAFE Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, said that given the long timelines and capital expenditure required to develop mines and processing facilities, international diplomacy must be a “cornerstone” of minerals efforts. Hunter said the summit exemplified the Trump administration’s approach on critical minerals: prioritizing supply chains for American companies, […]
CNN | Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
Minerals are back in the news, with President Donald Trump announcing on Wednesday that he’d reached an agreement on a possible deal on Greenland that would include rights to rare earth minerals. Critical and rare earth minerals underpin technologies propelling the clean energy transition, AI and advanced military hardware, among others, and their production is […]
Axios | Flipping the script on Chinese carmakers
With Chinese cars closing in on America, Washington might use lessons from China’s own playbook to try to limit the threat to the U.S. domestic industry. Why it matters: China used to copy American cars. Now, Chinese vehicles are as good or better than U.S. models, and cheaper, too. Automakers fear that low-cost Chinese models, already exported […]
Politico | Are oil markets calm or just numb?
ME FIRST — COALITION AIMS TO BUOY STEEL, ALUMINUM: Industry groups, clean energy advocates and business associations are linking arms in a new effort to reduce energy costs for domestic steel and aluminum producers they say are vital to the U.S. defense-industrial base and bolstering a domestic supply chain. Forging the Future has its sights set on […]
TechCrunch | Chinese EVs inch closer to the US as Canada slashes tariffs
On Thursday, Avery Ash, the CEO of nonprofit Securing America’s Future Energy, cautioned against Trump’s idea of allowing Chinese automakers to build cars in the United States. “We’ve seen this strategy backfire in Europe and elsewhere—it would have potentially catastrophic impacts on our automotive industry, have ripple effects on our entire defense industrial base, and make every American less […]
