WASHINGTON The Biden administration plans to invoke emergency federal powers as part of a new executive order aimed at reining in the risks of artificial…
A $37.5 million grant to Graphite One acts as a relaxed form of venture capital as the White House supports nascent parts of the domestic cleantech supply chain.
A large US Department of Defense grant to a startup developing North America’s largest deposit of graphite signals a major US foray into battery manufacturing. Graphite is the single biggest ingredient by weight in the batteries that go into EVs and the power grid, far ahead of lithium, but China dominates the processing capacity to produce battery-grade graphite